Nick Hill Cited By Baseball America
Nick Hill will forever be viewed as one of the finest pitchers to pass through the United States Military Academy at West Point.
After being chosen in the seventh round by the Mariners during June’s Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft and later assigned to the Everett (Wash.) AquaSox of the Northwest League (Class-A, Short Season), Hill wasted little time making a favorable impression on those within minor league baseball circles.
Hill, a two-time All-America selection who established or tied 46 school and conference records on game, season and career levels across a brilliant four-year collegiate career, was recently selected by Baseball America as having authored the “Best Debut” season of any player in the Seattle Mariners organization this past year.
In 18 appearances for the AquaSox this summer, Hill posted a deceiving 1-3 record with one save and a gaudy 0.51 earned run average. He struck out 45 and walked only nine, while permitting just 24 base hits in 35.0 innings of work. Hill, who was used exclusively out of the bullpen by Everett in an effort to limit his workload, yielded just two earned runs all season. He held Northwest League opponents to a .197 batting average and did not allow a single home run.
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