2011 Baseball Roster
Roster
Chris Stratton
- Position:
- RHP
- Height:
- 6-2
- Weight:
- 194
- Class:
- Sophomore
- Hometown:
- Tupelo, MS
- High School/Previous School:
- Tupelo HS
CAREER:
Junior right-hander and
one of three Bulldog hurlers to have earned SEC All-Freshman Team honors • Enters the 2012 campaign with a
10-10 record, a 5.25 earned run average and 152 strikeouts in 154.1 innings
pitched in his first two seasons • Two-time SEC Academic
Honor Roll selection.
2011:
Took the mound in 17 games, concluding his sophomore campaign
with a 5-7 worksheet and a 5.21 earned run average • Paced MSU hurlers with 14
starts, 76.0 innings pitched and 76 strikeouts • Pitched six innings or better
in eight of his first nine games • Moved to a relief role in postseason play •
Registered a staff-leading four of MSU's 14 quality pitching starts • Struck
out 10 and scattered six hits over 6.0 innings in his season debut, a win
against Lamar (Feb. 19) • Totaled a staff season-best 13 strikeouts with four
hits and no walks in a season-longest 7.2-inning start and win against Belmont (Feb. 26) • Also earned a non-conference win against Georgia State (Mar. 5) and SEC wins against Auburn (7.1 IP, Mar. 26), and at Tennessee (5.2 IP, May 8) • Finished with a 2-7 record and a 7.43 ERA in 10
SEC starts (46.0 IP) • Earned a berth on the 2011
SEC Academic Honor Roll • One of three
Bulldogs to earn perfect 4.0 grade point averages during the 2011 fall term •
Fashioned a 1-1 record with a 2.18 ERA pitching for the 2011 Cape Cod League champion Harwich
(Mass.) Mariners.
2010:
Appeared in 14 games, all
as a starter • Posted a 5-3 record with a 5.29 earned run average, pacing the
MSU staff with starts (14), innings pitched (78.1) and strikeouts (76) and tying
Greg Houston for most pitching wins (5) • Became the third Bulldog and second
MSU pitcher to receive SEC
All-Freshman team honors • Led
SEC freshman hurlers with 55 strikeouts in league competition and rated as one
of only two SEC freshman pitcher to start all 10 conference weekends • Earned a
win and contributed to MSU's lone shutout of the campaign in his collegiate
debut with six scoreless innings against Rhode
Island (Feb. 20) • Tallied a
personal-best and staff season-high nine strikeouts in a 7.1 inning start and
win against Southeast Missouri (Mar. 6) • Notched the first of his three SEC wins with a 5.0
inning start at eventual NCAA champion South
Carolina (Apr. 3) • Recorded a
career-first nine-inning complete game win over Tennessee (Apr. 17) before 11,089 fans at Dudy Noble Field on Super Bulldog
Weekend • Recorded eight strikeouts and the staff's third-longest outing (8.0
innings) in a no-decision start against Vanderbilt (May 15) • Earned SEC
Freshman of the Week honors on the final
weekend, blanking defending NCAA champ LSU (May 21) and allowing three hits over seven innings in a 2-1 win
in Baton Rouge • Worked five innings or better in nine of his 14 starts and
paced the staff with five quality starts (six or more innings pitched with
three or fewer earned runs allowed) • Joined four other Bulldog rookies on the 2010 SEC Freshman Academic Honor Roll.
HIGH SCHOOL:
Three-year
starter as a right-handed pitcher and infielder at Tupelo High School • Coached at THS by Gary
Enis • Compiled a 7-2 record with a save and a
1.09 earned run average as a senior • Recorded 113 strikeouts and allowed only
12 earned runs in 70.1 innings of mound duty • All-state selection named to the
Clarion-Ledger's 2009 Mississippi "Dandy
Dozen" team • Tabbed the 2009 Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
Player of the Year • Recipient
of Tupelo HS's Cy Young Award • Earned all-state, all-district and all-north
state honors as a junior, helping lead the Golden Wave to a 32-7 mark and state
runner-up honors in 2008 • Fashioned a 10-1 record with a 1.95 ERA and 98
strikeouts in 71.1 innings of pitching • Also compiled a .367 batting average •
Finished with a 6-0 record on Tupelo's 34-5 team in 2007 Member of the
Fellowship of Christian Athletes and the Key Club • Played summer league
baseball with the Tupelo
49ers, coached by former MSU baseball signee Kirk Presley.
PERSONAL:
Born Christopher
Lee Stratton on August 22, 1990
in Tupelo, Miss. • Son of Janet and Lee
Stratton of Tupelo, Miss. • Majoring in
kinesiology.
