Sedlock named on All-America first team
June 7, 2016
Cody Sedlock’s season was right on point, and Baseball America caught on.
Baseball America, an online and print publication, named the pitcher to its All-America first team. Sedlock is the second righty in Illinois’ program history to make the team.
This is also the second-straight year Illinois has seen consecutive All-Americans and first in 68 years. Tyler Jay made the team last year.
Jay was drafted sixth overall by the Minnesota Twins as a junior. It was the highest Illinois player drafted ever, but Sedlock may put that to the test.
Sedlock, a junior, went 5-3 this past year with a 2.49 ERA and a record 116 strikeouts in 101.1 innings. He twice pitched into the 10th inning — once striking out 14 in a scoreless 10.2 innings of work.
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He averaged 8.9 innings and a 1.01 ERA in his last five Big Ten appearances.
It earned Sedlock on April 22 Illinois’ first-ever National Pitcher of the Week Award.
Now, a little more than a month later, he is predicted to be a first-round pick in Thursday’s MLB Draft. Baseball America predicts he will be drafted 33rd overall by the St. Louis Cardinals.