University of North Carolina Athletics
Miller Named Baseball America's Summer Player of the Year
August 29, 2005 | Baseball
Aug. 29, 2005
DURHAM, N.C. - The off-season honors continue to pile up for North Carolina junior left-hander Andrew Miller, who was named Baseball America's College Summer Player of the Year August 25 after a stellar campaign for the Chatham A's of the Cape Cod Baseball League.
Also named to Baseball America's College Summer All-America first team, Miller was 6-0 on the summer with a 1.65 earned run average and 66 strikeouts in 49 innings. He allowed just 22 hits and walked just 23 batters. The Gainesville, Fla., product was selected by the Cape's scouts as the winner of the Robert A. McNeece Outstanding Pro Prospect Award and shared the league's B.F.C. Whitehouse Outstanding Pitching Award. Baseball America also named Miller the league's top professional prospect.
Miller was not the only Tar Heel honored in the publication's summer league wrap-up coverage, as right-hander Daniel Bard was named to the College Summer All-America second team. Three Tar Heels were listed among the top 10 prospects in the Coastal Plain League, as Matt Spencer was rated No. 3, Josh Horton No. 7 and Seth Williams No. 8. Additionally, third baseman Reid Fronk was ranked the No. 10 prospect in the Northwoods League.
