Baseball America All America Team
D1Baseball.com All America Team
FULLERTON - Cal State Fullerton right-hander Thomas Eshelman earned two more All-American nods Thursday as both Baseball America and D1.Baseball.com announced their All-American teams.
Eshelman was named to the All-American First Team by both outlets, bringing his total All-American Team selections to four this postseason. He was named to the NCBWA Third Team on Wednesday, one week after earning a Louisville Slugger Second Team nod from Collegiate Baseball.
The Carlsbad, Calif. native was also selected in the second round of the 2015 MLB First Year Player Draft on Monday night, taken by the Houston Astros with the 46th overall pick.
Eshelman earned Fullerton Regional Most Valuable Player honors and was named to the Louisville Slugger All-America First Team by Collegiate Baseball on May 28. In addition, Eshelman was also named the 2015 All-Big West Conference Pitcher of the Year, racking up three conference pitcher of the week honors while landing on the Golden Spikes Award Semifinalist List for the second time in his career. He captured his first nationally recognized honor on May 12 with the National Collegiate Baseball Writers of America's (NCBWA) Pitcher of the Week award.
With three appearances (two starts) in the 2015 NCAA postseason, Eshelman boasts a 1.59 ERA with a combined 17 innings of work, yielding only three runs while fanning a whopping 20 against just two walks. Both starts were recorded as no decisions for Eshelman, but the Titans picked up both victories by a pair of 3-2 decisions against Arizona State in the Fullerton Regional on May 30 and against the Cardinals in the Louisville Super Regional on Saturday. In tonight's winner-take-all series finale against Louisville, Eshelman set down the final three batters and added another strikeout in the 11th inning to collect his first career save to send the Titans to Omaha for the first time since 2009.
In 18 appearances (17 starts) this year, Eshelman leads the nation with an impressive 131:7 strikeout-to-walk ratio (18.71) and walks allowed per nine innings (.46) to compliment his 1.58 ERA. He led the conference with five complete games to go along with an 8-5 record. In 131 and 1/3 frames, Eshelman has surrendered 30 runs (23 earned) over the season while striking out an average of nine batters per nine innings.
Thus far into his three-year tenure as a Titan, Eshelman logs an all-time record of 28-11 over 369 and 2/3 innings and a 1.66 ERA. Tonight marked the first and only save of his career. Over his career, Eshelman has allowed 88 runs (68 earned) and added 13 complete games en route to an astounding strikeout to walk ratio of 313:18.
The Titans open the 2015 NCAA College World Series on Sunday night as they face off against defending national champion Vanderbilt at 8:05 p.m. ET/5:05 p.m. PT on ESPN2.
