Tanner Burns of Decatur and a signee for Butch Thompson’s Auburn baseball team has been tabbed Collegiate Baseball’s National Player of the Year, it was announced on Friday. Fellow signees Cody Greenhill, Judd Ward and Steven Williams were also named First Team High School All-Americans and Peyton Glavine a Second Team All-American by the same publication.
Burns, a right-handed pitcher/shortstop, was 10-1 with a 0.88 ERA, logged eight complete games and struck out 116 in 64 innings. At the plate, he hit .467 with 10 doubles, four triples, 16 home runs and 46 RBI, striking out just seven times in 105 at-bats.