All-Time Teams Cont'd: Let's start the baseball roster

A quick recap:
We started the men's soccer team with goalie Alex Iglesias.
We started the women's soccer team with goalie Pien Van Kampen.
We started the men's lacrosse team with goalie Sean Dever and faceoff specialist Zach Stephenson.
We started the women's lacrosse team with goalie Julia Darroch.
And we started the men's basketball team with point guard Brian Harper and shooting guard CJ Wilson.


So why don't we start the baseball roster with a look at the pitcher position.
For starting pitcher I'll go with Michael Livingston. His 15-16 win-loss record might not jump off the page but his spot on the all-time team goes beyond that singular stat.
His 41 starts on the mound are the most in baseball's NCAA era.
Since 2011, he has the most strikeouts with 280 and the second-most innings pitched with 282 and 2/3. 
And then there's this stat: out of four complete games in his career, he's held his opponent scoreless in three of them. He's who I want toeing the rubber for the first inning.

Relief pitcher is fairly easy: that's going to be McLain Harris. He has the most pitching appearances, most innings pitched and second-most strikeouts since 2011. His NCAA-era record 25 saves is impressive enough but more so when you realize that it's three more than the next three on the list combined (Brody Meeks, Cody Beck and Tyler Isbell have combined for 22 thus far). 



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