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Tyler Miller Season 2021

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Tyler Miller Season 2021

PositionIF/OF
Weight193 lbs
Height6-2
ClassJunior
HometownSpanish Fort, Ala.
Previous SchoolEast Mississippi

HONORS AND AWARDS
ABCA First Team All-Southeast Region (2021)

2021 – JUNIOR YEAR
Played and started in 51 games, including 48 at first base ... hit .313 (65-for-208) with 38 runs, 10 doubles, one triple, 16 home runs and 61 RBI, leading the team in homers and RBI ... his 61 RBI were the most in the SEC in the regular season and his 16 homers were fourth ... also finished top 10 in the league in total bases (125) and slugging (.613) ... his home run and RBI totals were the second most by an Auburn player since 2011, trailing Edouard Julien's 17 homers and 69 RBI in 2018 ... named ABCA/Rawlings First Team All-Southeast Region … led the SEC with 18 multi-RBI games in the regular season ... went 3-for-4 with four runs, a home run and four RBI in a record-setting win against Alabama A&M (Feb. 24) … went 7-for-his-last-7 and reached base in eight straight plate appearances in the last two games of the Round Rock Classic (Feb. 27-28), collecting a career-high four hits in the finale against Texas A&M ... hit for the cycle with four runs and four RBI in the final two contests of the event … drove in a career high six runs and went 3-for-3 with three runs sccored in a win against Boston College (Mar. 6) … turned in his first of two multi-HR games and drove in four at Lipscomb (Mar. 16) … went 7-for-14 with two doubles, two homers and five RBI in a three-game span at Ole Miss and against Kentucky (Mar. 20-26) ... hit a three-run homer to extend the lead in the series finale at Arkansas (Apr. 3) ... turned in a season-high, seven-game hitting streak from Apr. 15-25 ... hit .424 (14-for-33) with three homers and 10 RBI during the streak ... turned in his second multi-HR game and added a double in the middle game vs. Texas A&M (May 15) … hit his 16th homer of the year and added a double against North Alabama (May 18) ... recorded multiple extra-base hits in six games during the season ... turned in a .997 fielding percentage and was a part of 42 double plays ... named to the 2021 Spring SEC Academic Honor Roll ... selected by the Boston Red Sox in the 9th round of the 2021 MLB Draft. 

2020 – SOPHOMORE YEAR
Saw action in 12 games and earned a start in nine contests … started in three different positions – LF, RF and DH … hit .229 (8-for-35) with nine runs, one triple and five RBI … hit a RBI triple off the wall in right center in his first career at-bat vs. Illinois-Chicago (Feb. 14) … recorded a hit in each of the first four games … drove in a season-high two runs in the second games vs. UIC (Feb. 15) and finished the series 4-for-12 with six runs and four RBI … also drove in a run against Wright State (Feb. 29).

JUNIOR COLLEGE
Led East Mississippi CC in batting average (.336), slugging percentage (.599), hits (51), doubles (nine), triples (five), home runs (seven), RBI (36) and stolen bases (eight) while tying for the team lead in runs (29) as a freshman … was the only EMCC player to start all 41 games … named MACJC All-Region and the MACJC Player of the Week during the season.

HIGH SCHOOL
Rated a top-500 player nationally and a top-50 player in Alabama coming out of Spanish Fort High School … was a career .430 hitter who collected 72 extra-base hits, including 26 home runs, in three seasons … two-time 6A All-State honoree and the 2018 ASWA Hitter of the Year after batting .403 with 13 home runs and 34 RBI … drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 23rd round of the 2018 MLB Draft.

PERSONAL
Son of  Meredith and Malery Miller … has two siblings, Hayes Miller and Kimberly Claire Slaton … studying in the College of Business.