Craig joins 47 players on national watch list
Continuing to earn national recognition, University of Evansville junior Tanner Craig has been named to the 2021 Bobby Bragan Collegiate Slugger Award Watch List, it was announced Wednesday afternoon.
The award, created by the Bobby Bragan Youth Foundation, was open to nominations from all Division I baseball programs in the country. The BBCSA is based on performance at the plate, academics and personal integrity. This year’s watch list consists of 48 players representing 17 conferences around the country, including all five power conferences. Craig is joined by Dallas Baptist junior Blayne Jones as the only two members of the watch list from the Missouri Valley Conference.
The honor of being named to the watch list follows a shortened 2020 campaign in which Craig put in a monster performance in 16 games. Craig led the team in home runs (7), OPS (1.238), runs (10), hits (20), RBI (19), total bases (44), slugging percentage (.759), walks (13), and on-base percentage (.479), while finishing second on the team in batting average (.345). Craig was named to Collegiate Baseball’s National Players of the Week, MVC Player of the Week, and to the MVC Scholar-Athlete team in 2020.
The winner of the BBCSA will be announced in June and honored at a gala in the fall at the Fort Worth Club. Texas Tech’s Hunter Hargrove won the initial BBCSA in 2017. Dallas Baptist’s Devlin Granberg took home the honor in 2018 with Texas Tech’s Josh Jung winning the award in 2019.
