NORMAL, Ill. - Illinois State baseball's sixth-year senior Jared Hart has been selected to the Preseason All-Missouri Valley Conference team, one of just two relief pitchers on the 13-player squad. Illinois State was picked to finish seventh in the expanded 10-team MVC in 2023, as revealed Tuesday by the conference and voted on the MVC's head coaches.
Hart led the MVC in ERA in 2022 with a 2.45 clip over 55 innings pitched. Six of Hart's 23 appearances came in a starting role as the Temple College and Wabash Valley College transfer moved from a utility relief role into the Friday starting role midway through the 2022 season.