TEMPE, Ariz. – Eight Sun Devil Baseball student-athletes earned Pac-12 All-Conference Honors, including four first-team selections, the Pac-12 announced Thursday.
Arizona State’s four first teamers and eight total selections are both the second most in the conference behind Arizona’s five, and USC’s nine, respectively. A total of 18 Sun Devils have earned All-Conference honors under Head Coach Tracy Smith, the most in the Pac-12 in the past two seasons, and ASU leads the conference with 34 first-team selections over the past seven seasons.
Junior catcher Brian Serven and shortstop Colby Woodmansee picked up first-team honors for the second consecutive season and are joined by first baseman David Greer and starting pitcher Seth Martinez. This is the second year in a row Greer has earned All-Conference honors as he was an honorable mention recipient in 2015.
Senior pitcher Jordan Aboites earned a spot on the nine-member All-Defensive Team and received All-Conference honorable mention recognition. Three other Devils received honorable mention honors, including freshman outfielder Gage Canning, junior pitcher Eder Erives, and sophomore outfielder Andrew Shaps.
ASU’s All-Conference Honorees
David Greer, Jr., IB - first team
Seth Martinez, Jr., RHP - first team
Brian Serven, Jr., C - first team
Colby Woodmansee, Jr., SS – first team
Jordan Aboites, Sr., RHP/INF – honorable mention
Gage Canning, Fr., OF – honorable mention
Eder Erives, Jr., RHP – honorable mention
Andrew Shaps, Soph., OF - honorable mention
Greer started 55 games and led the Sun Devils with a .344 batting average, a .585 slugging percentage and a .436 on-base percentage. His 73 hits, including 33 for extra-bases, eight home runs, and 47 runs scored also paced the team, and his 42 RBI were second. He leads the Pac-12 and ranks 10th in the nation with 23 doubles, his 124 total bases are tops in the conference, and he is among the top five in the Pac-12 in runs scored, hits, and home runs.
Martinez led all starting pitchers in the Pac-12 with a 2.08 ERA and ranked second in the conference in wins at nine, third in innings pitched at 108.1, fourth in strikeouts with 91, and seventh in opposing batting average at .207. He went 9-3 on the year with 13 of his 15 starts registering as quality, and he has allowed just 24 earned runs as a starter after he began the season with a streak of 14 consecutive innings without giving up an earned run. He has a 1.15 WHIP, and has taken no-hitters into the fifth inning on four separate occasions.
Serven started 54 games at catcher and tallied 23 RBI, 50 hits, and 24 runs scored with a .282 batting average. His 25 runners caught stealing are the most in the Pac-12 and he was on the watch list for the Johnny Bench Award. He went 7-for-13, including a go-ahead home run in the 10th inning of the finale, in a key Pac-12 series sweep at Stanford April 22-24, and notched three walk-off RBI, including two against UC Davis in back-to-back games and a sacrifice fly vs. Oregon.
Woodmansee started all 55 games at shortstop and has started every regular season at the position in the past two seasons. He leads the team with 43 RBI and is on pace to become the first shortstop in school history to pace the team in RBI in consecutive seasons. He leads the team with 14 multi-RBI games, is tied for the team with eight home runs, and is second with a .458 slugging percentage and a .368 on-base percentage. He ranks in the top 10 in the Pac-12 in four major offensive categories, including fifth in home runs at eight, sixth in RBI at 43, eighth in doubles with 14, and ninth in runs scored at 39.
Aboites made eight starts and four relief appearances as a pitcher and started 31 games in the infield, including 20 at third base and 11 at second base. He went 6-2 on the mound in 52 innings, and added six RBI, 14 hits and 10 runs scored in 88 at-bats. He made a number of key starts across the final month of the season as he picked up road wins against UNLV, Arizona and UCLA, and went seven innings or longer for the first time in his career in back-to-back conference starts at UCLA and vs. USC.
Canning started 51 games this season to become just the fifth ASU freshman in the past 15 years to start the majority of the season in the outfield. A key component of the team’s second-half success, he is batting .346 with a team-best 37 hits, including 13 for extra-bases, and 14 RBI, and 20 runs scored and 61 total bases, which both rank second on the team in the past 29 games. He reached base in 26 of the 29 games during the stretch and put together a team-high13-game hitting streak, and moved into a tie for third in the conference with six triples.
Erives tallied 10 saves and six wins in a team-high 22 appearances this season. He has a 2.73 ERA, second-lowest on the team, and 70 strikeouts, ninth-highest in the Pac-12, across 69.1 innings, and is tied for second in the conference with a .183 opposing batting average. He tossed a career-high seven innings in back-to-back starts with 11 and nine strikeouts, respectively, and allowed just four earned runs, in wins against Washington State and Washington.
Shaps, who entered the 2016 season with six total at-bats, has started 52 games this year and is second on the team with a .327 batting average and 64 hits. He added 17 extra-base hits, including 11 doubles, four triples and two home runs, 27 runs scored, and 27 RBI in 196 at-bats.