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2022 Baseball Roster

18 Tanner Craig

  • Position Infielder
  • Height 6-1
  • Weight 210
  • Class Fifth Year
  • Hometown Scottsburg, IN
  • Highschool Austin HS

Biography

2019 Second Team All-MVC

2021
  • Put on a power hitting clinic as a senior, hitting a team-best 12 home runs, vaulting himself into a tie for fourth in program history with 30 homers.
  • Played and started in 54 of 55 games in 2021, leading the Aces with 47 RBI
  • Slugged a team-best .547 on the season
  • Hit two home runs at German American Bank Field on May 7 against SIU
  • Went a perfect 5-for-5 at the plate in a come-from-behind win over SIU on May 9

2020
  • Made a big impression early for the Aces, hitting seven home runs in just 16 games, including four in the first weekend.
  • Played and started in all 16 games for Evansville with a .345 batting average and a team-best 1.238 OPS.
  • Named to Collegiate Baseball's National Players of the Week and MVC Player of the Week after belting four bombs in the season-opening series against TTU.
  • Launched his first career grand slam in the series-opener against College of Charleston on March 6.
  • FInished the season in the top 25 nationally in home runs (eighth), home runs per game (12th), and slugging percentage (25th).

2019
  • Appeared in 52 games, starting all 52, as a sophomore.
  • Finished second on the team with a .284 batting average.
  • Compiled a team-best 14 doubles to go along with a triple and five home runs.
  • Led the Aces in slugging percentage with .442 on the year.
  • Turned in his best performance at the plate in 2019 in a 10-2 win over Xavier on  March 24, recording three hits, scoring two runs, and driving in three more, while going 2-5 at the plate.

2018
  • Had a sensational first season with the Purple Aces, finishing fourth on the team in batting average (.289), third in slugging percentage (.450), third in hits (52), fourth in RBIs (25), second in home runs (6) and third in doubles (11). 
  • Posted a four-hit game against Illinois State (5-17-18).
  • Hit home runs against Bowling Green St. (3-07-18), Florida Gulf Coast (3-11-18), Dallas Baptist (5-5-18), Tennesse-Martin (5-08-18), Indiana St. (5-11-18), and Illinois State (5-17-18) ... Had the fourth most multi-hit games on the team with 13.
  • Finished tied for the most multi-RBI games on the team with 11..

PREP 
  • Four time letter winner at Austin H.S. in Scottsburg, IN

PERSONAL 
  • Son of Todd and Jennifer
  • Siblings - Quintin, Peyton Craig and  Morgan Dillard

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 18

    2018Freshman

    INF
    6'0" 207 lbs
    18
  • 18

    2019Sophomore

    INF
    6'0" 230 lbs
    18
  • 18

    2020Junior

    Infielder
    6'0" 230 lbs
    18
  • 18

    2021Junior

    Infielder
    6'0" 230 lbs
    18
  • 18

    2022Fifth Year

    Infielder
    6'1" 210 lbs
    18
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