Tide's Adam Morgan selected in third round of the baseball draft by the Phillies
Updated Jan 14, 2019; Posted Jun 07, 2011
By Don Kausler Jr.
View full sizeAlabama junior Adam Morgan delivers a pitch during an April victory over Arkansas. (UA photo)
Alabama pitcher Adam Morgan was projected as a third-round draft choice, and sure enough, he was selected today by the Philadelphia Phillies, who used the last pick of the third round to take the junior left-hander.
Morgan was the 120th player selected in the draft.
"For any team to take me in the third round as their top three picks, it's just amazing," Morgan said in an Alabama news release. "You work so hard all your life for this opportunity. I'm really excited that the Phillies picked me."
The 6-foot-1, 180-pound product of Kell High School in Marietta, Ga., has been a fixture in Alabama's starting rotation for three years. He is 16-14 in 47 appearances, including 43 starts, in his college career.
As a freshman, Morgan was 4-2 with a 2.96 ERA. As a junior, he was 7-5 with a 6.18 ERA in a Southeastern Conference-SEC-leading 18 starts.
This season, he finished with a 5-7 record and 4.64 ERA. In his last appearance of the season, he was the losing pitcher Friday in a 9-5 loss to Florida State in the NCAA Tallahassee Regional. He allowed eight runs on 11 hits in 5 2/3 innings. In 16 starts this season, Morgan threw 97.0 innings with 77 strikeouts and 26 walks. Opponents compiled a .278 batting average against him. Morgan posted 11 outings of at least 6.0 innings, which included a complete game against Tennessee on April 16. He was the starting pitcher for two of Alabama's seven shutouts. He threw the first 5.1 innings in an 11-0 win over Alcorn State on Feb. 18 and the first 8.0 innings in a 4-0 victory over LSU on May 7.