2011 Baseball Roster
Roster
Tanner Gaines
- Position:
- RHP
- Height:
- 6-1
- Weight:
- 179
- Class:
- Freshman
- Hometown:
- Baldwyn, MS
- High School/Previous School:
- Baldwyn HS
2011:
Sat out the 2011 season as a
redshirt • Played summer league baseball with the Tupelo 49ers, coached by Kirk
Presley • Teamed with Bulldogs Will Cox and Brandon
Woodruff on the team that finished second
in the 2011 American Legion
World Series in Shelby, North
Carolina.
HIGH SCHOOL:
Four-year starter and five-time
letter-winner at Baldwyn
High School • Coached by Gregg Tucker • Paced the Bearcats with a .387 batting average in 2010, earning
all-area honors and the team's batting award • Collected 34 hits with 30 RBI,
nine doubles and four home runs, all team-highs • Compiled a 3-4 pitching
record with a team-best 2.92 earned run average • Recorded 84 strikeouts in 48
innings of mound duty, registering four complete-games while holding opposing
hitters to a .157 composite batting average • Honored as both a NEMCABB and a Crossroads
Diamond Club All-Star • Hit .406 and
compiled a 7-3 pitching mark with a 1.20 earned run average and 100 strikeouts
as a junior en route to all-state, all-division, all-area and Jackson Clarion-Ledger Dandy Dozen honors in 2009 • Also lettered three years in basketball and two
years in football • Passed for 1,492 yards and 16 touchdowns in 2010 •
Initially signed with Northeast Mississippi Community College.
PERSONAL:
Born John Tanner Gaines on April 10, 1992 in Tupelo, Miss. • Son of Mitzi and Craig Gaines of Baldwyn, Miss. • Majoring in secondary education.
