Tanner Burns
Lowell Tanner Burns (born December 28, 1998) is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Cleveland Guardians organization. He was selected 36th overall by the Indians in the 2020 Major League Baseball draft. Early life & amateur career Burns grew up in Decatur, Alabama and attended Decatur High School, where he played baseball starting in eighth grade. As a junior, Burns hit .472 with 13 home runs and 60 RBIs and went 5–2 with two saves, a 1.11 ERA and 80 strikeouts. As a senior, Burns went 10–1 with a 0.88 ERA and 116 strikeouts while batting .467 with 16 homers, 10 doubles, four triples and 46 RBIs and was named Alabama Mr. Baseball, the Alabama Gatorade Player of the Year and the National Player of the Year by the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper. Burns was selected in the 37th round of the 2017 Major League Baseball draft by the New York Yankees but did not sign. As a true freshman at Auburn University, Burns made 17 starts, posting a 7–4 record with a 3.01 ERA and 77 strikeouts in innings pitched and was named to the Southeastern Conference (SEC) All-Freshman team and was named a Freshman All-American by Baseball America,