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DAN HEEFNER–HEAD COACH
were named the MVC Joe Carter Player of the Year in Darick Hall (2016) and Devlin Granberg (2018). Heenfer has also mentored a pair of pitchers who garnered MVC Pitcher of the Year honors in Colin Poche (2016) and Trevor Conn (2018), as well as the league’s Newcomer of the Year in Darick Hall (2016) and Kody Funderburk (2018). Heefner has also helped produce some of the top up and coming talent in the league as Jameson Hannah was tabbed the 2016 Co-Freshman of the Year in The Valley, while Jimmy Glowenke was named the MVC’s Freshman of the Year in 2018. Defensively, Patriot shortstops Camden Duzenack (2017) and Jimmy Glowenke (2018) each claimed Defensive Player of the Year honors in The Valley in back-to-back seasons.
In the Patriots’ seven seasons in the Missouri Valley Conference, 73 players from DBU have earned All-MVC recognition, a total that ranks most among all eight teams in the league. DBU also sits atop the league in the classroom over the last seven years, as 27 Patriots have been named First Team All-MVC Scholar Athletes.
Developing players to advance their careers to the professional ranks has become a staple of the DBU Baseball program under Heefner’s guidance. During Heefner’s 13-year career as the head coach at DBU, 58 players have been selected in the Major League Draft, including 22 that have been taken in the top 10 rounds. Dating back to 2015, DBU’s 33 draft selections is the 8th highest total in all of college baseball. Since Heefner arrived at DBU as an assistant coach in 2005, 81 players have pursued professional baseball careers.
In 2020, DBU was one of only nine programs in the nation with two or more players selected in the first two rounds of the Major League Draft as Burl Carraway and Jimmy Glowenke were each selected in the second round. Carraway became the third-highest draft pick in school history when he was selected by the Chicago Cubs with the 51st overall pick, while Glowenke matched Jake Johansen as the program’s fourth-highest pick after going 68th overall to the San Francisco Giants.
Following the 2019 season, six Patriots were taken in the MLB Draft. A pair of senior pitchers were the top two picks from DBU as MD Johnson went in the sixth round to the Miami Marlins and Jordan Martinson was taken by the New York Mets in the 11th round.
In 2018, seven players were selected from DBU in the draft, a total that ranked as the sixth most draft picks from one school among the 297 NCAA Division I programs in the nation. The Patriots’ seven draft picks also tied a school record with the 2015 and 2006 teams for the most selections in one year.
Headlining the 2018 draft class for DBU was junior outfielder Jameson Hannah, who became the program’s second highest draft pick when he went in the second round with the 50th overall pick to the Oakland Athletics. Following Hannah was the 2018 Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year, Devlin
Granberg, who was selected by the Boston Red Sox in the sixth round. Rounding out the Patriots’ third pick in the top 10 rounds was senior catcher Matt Duce, a ninth round pick of the St. Louis Cardinals.
The Patriots saw six players drafted in 2017, which ranked as the fifth most selections in college baseball. All six players that were selected in the 2017 MLB Draft were taken in the first 17 rounds, highlighted by Seth Elledge, who was picked by the Seattle Mariners in the fourth round. Dalton Higgins was taken by the New York Yankees in the seventh round, while the Arizona Diamondbacks selected Camden Duzenack’s in round nine. The program’s all-time home run leader, Austin Listi, was taken in the 17th round by the Philadelphia Phillies.
In 2016, five players from DBU were selected in the Major League Draft, headlined by junior outfielder David Martinelli, who was a sixth round selection of the Philadelphia Phillies. Both Darick Hall and Colin Poche were selected in the 14th rounds, as Hall was taken by the Phillies and Poche went to the Arizona Diamondbacks.
In 2015, DBU tied a school record with seven players selected in the Major League Draft, matching the previous high set in 2006. Drew Smith was the highest draft selection from DBU in 2015, as the junior right-hand pitcher was taken by the Detroit Tigers in the third round. With the selection of Smith in round three, DBU became the only school from the state of Texas and one of only nine programs in the nation to have a player taken in the top three rounds from 2013-2015. Joining Smith on that elite list of players from DBU taken in the first three rounds are Cy Sneed, who was a third round selection of the Milwaukee Brewers in 2014, and Jake Johansen, who went in the second round to the Washington Nationals in 2013.
In total, DBU saw five junior pitchers taken in the first 12 rounds of the 2015 Major League Draft, including Drew Smith (3rd round - Detroit Tigers), Brandon Koch (4th round - Tampa Bay Rays), Chance Adams (5th round - New York Yankees), Cory Taylor (8th round - San Francisco Giants), and Joseph Shaw (12th round - New York Mets), making it the first time in school history in which five pitchers have been selected from a single draft class.
Also selected in the 2015 draft class were two position players in catcher,
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