TEMPE, Ariz. – Sun Devil Baseball junior right-handed pitcher Ryan Burr was named to the Capital One Academic All-District Baseball Team for District 8, The College Sports Information Directors of America announced Thursday.
A criminal justice and criminology major with a 3.60 GPA, Burr also becomes eligible for the Capital One Academic All-America teams, which will be selected later this month and in early June. He has been named a Scholar Baller®, which honors those who achieve a 3.0 GPA or higher, in each of his five semesters at Arizona State, and earned Second Team Pac-12 All-Academic recognition in 2014.
Burr, who has been named to the midseason watch lists for Golden Spikes Award, NCBWA Stopper of the Year and College Baseball Hall of Fame Pitcher of the Year, ranks first in the Pac-12 in saves with 13 and is tied for second in the conference with seven victories. He is the only player in the nation with double-digit saves and seven wins, and is the only full-time reliever in the Pac-12 to rank among the top eight in the conference in strikeouts.
A native of Highlands Ranch, Colo., he holds ASU’s career saves record with 37 and ranks fifth in school history with 88 appearances. He recorded his 26th career save on Feb. 18 to set the school’s career saves record and break Doug Nurnberg’s record, which was set in 1965-67 and was the longest-standing individual career record in school history. Burr’s 13 saves in 2015 are one away from tying the single-season school record and he set the freshmen record for single-season saves with 12 in 2013.
A two-time All-Pac-12 honoree, Burr is the only Sun Devil in the past seven seasons to hold opponents to under a .150 batting average in consecutive seasons. He is one of only two Sun Devils in school history, along with Dustin Pedroia, to play for the USA Collegiate National Team in consecutive seasons.
Burr is the first Sun Devil to earn Academic All-District honors since shortstop Deven Marrero in 2012. Thirteen baseball student-athletes have earned Academic All-American honors dating back to 1964, with the most recent being Andy Workman in 2011, Mike Leake in 2009 and Preston Paramore in 2008.