IU baseball pitcher Luke Sinnard has come full circle after suffering a serious injury at the 2023 NCAA Regional in Lexington.
Although he missed the entire 2024 campaign following Tommy John surgery, the 6-foot-8 righthander from Hendersonville, Tenn. was selected with the 99th overall pick in the third round of the 2024 Major League Baseball Draft by the Atlanta Braves.
Now fully recovered, Sinnard pitched for scouts in Bloomington and made a trip to the 2024 MLB Draft Combine where he was a standout with his spin rate and velocity numbers.
In 2023, Sinnard, set the Indiana single-season strikeout record with 114, a record that stood for 89 season. He also tied for the best single-game strikeout mark in the Big Ten in 2023 with 13 vs. Morehead State/
Sinnard earned second-team All-Midwest Region by the American Baseball Coaches Association, and was tabbed second-team All-Big Ten. He was named to the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Player of the Week Honor Roll on March 20 after the 13-strikeout effort against Morehead State.
Sinnard led the Big Ten and finished No. 16 in Division I in strikeouts in 2023 with 114. He ended the season No. 32 nationally in strikeouts per nine innings (11.88). Sinnard finished tied for No. 36 nationally in games started (16), which tied for a Big Ten best. He was No. 44 in Division I in strikeout-to-walk ratio (4.56)
After transferring in from Western Kentucky following the 2022 season, Sinnard held opponents to three-or-fewer runs in 10 of 16 outings. He issued two-or-fewer walks in 13 of 16 outings, and sruck out seven-or-more batters in nine games, with three double-digit strikeout games.
Sinnard is the first of multiple Hoosiers expected to be chosen in the Draft. He is the 108th all-time player from IU to be selected, and the 14th Indiana player all-time to be picked among the top-100 selections in the MLB Draft.
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