Biography
Career Honors:
- Perfect Game Pitcher of the Year (2019)
- Golden Spikes Finalist (2019)
- Dick Howser Trophy Finalist (2019)
- College Baseball Hall of Fame National Pitcher of the Year Finalist (2019)
- NAAA Sword for Men Winner (2019)
- First Team All-American (Collegiate Baseball, Baseball America, Perfect Game, NCBWA, D1Baseball, ABCA, College Baseball Hall of Fame)
- Patriot League Pitcher of the Year (2019)
- Perfect Game Third Team Preseason All-American (2019)
- Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Third Team Preseason All-American (2019)
- Perfect Game Honorable Mention All-American (2018)
- ABCA All-East Regional First Team (2018 - SP, 2019 - SP)
- All-ECAC First Team (2018)
- First Team All-Patriot League (2018 - SP, 2019 - SP)
- Louisville Slugger Freshman All-American (2016)
- NCBWA Freshman All-America Second Team (2016)
- ABCA All-East Regional Second Team (2016)
- Patriot League Rookie of the Year (2016)
- Second Team All-Patriot League (2016 - SP, 2017 - SP)
- National Player of the Week (2/26/18, 4/2/18, 2/25/19, 3/11/19, 3/25/19, 4/22/19, 4/29/19)
- Patriot League Pitcher of the Week (2/28/17, 2/26/18, 4/2/18, 4/9/18, 2/19/19, 2/26/19, 3/12/19, 4/16/19, 4/22/19, 4/30/19)
- Patriot League Rookie of the Week (3/21/16, 4/4/16, 4/18/16, 5/2/16, 5/9/16)
Career Highs:
Innings Pitched: 9.0, two times, MR: vs. Army (4/20/18)
Strikeouts: 16, two times, MR: vs. Cornell (3/9/19)
Longest Outing w/1 Hit: 7.0 IP, four times, MR: vs. Army (4/20/19)
Longest Outing w/o Walk: 7.0 IP, two times, MR: vs. Lehigh (4/27/19)
2019 (Senior)
- Was drafted in the fourth round (137th overall) in the MLB Draft by the Boston Red Sox
- Named the Perfect Game Pitcher of the Year
- Was a finalist for the USA Baseball Golden Spikes Award, Dick Howser Trophy and College Baseball Hall of Fame National Pitcher of the Year
- Program’s first First Team All-American by numerous outlets
- Won the NAAA Sword for Men
- Named Patriot League Pitcher of the Year and was a First Team All-Patriot League honoree
- First Team ABCA All-East Region
- Was named the National Player of the Week five different times during the season
- Song was selected as the Patriot League Pitcher of the Week six times in 2019 and earned the award a record 10 times in his career
- Finished the season with a 1.44 ERA and set the program record of strikeouts in a season with 161 and strikeouts per nine innings at 15.41
- Song’s 15.41 strikeouts per nine innings led NCAA Division I and were the most since 2009 while being tied for sixth all-time in Division I history
- Allowed the opposition to hit just .171 for the season and finished the year with a record of 11-1 in 14 starts
- Broke the program career record for wins (32), strikeouts (428), innings pitched (334-1/3) and tied for most shutouts with nine
2018 (Junior)
- Selected the First Team All-Patriot League
- Named Patriot League Pitcher of the Week on three different occasions during the year
- Song led the Navy rotation with a 1.92 ERA in 14 starts
- He finished the season with a record of 6-5, tossing five complete games and throwing four shutouts
- His 89 innings pitched led the team and he recorded 121 strikeouts to guide the Mids
- Song allowed the opposition to hit just .178 at the plate and was one of two Midshipmen to have opponent batting averages under .200
- Surrendered just 19 earned runs and 26 total runs
- Of his 14 starts, he compiled 10 “quality starts”
- In a six-inning outing against Air Force, Song set a new career high with 16 strikeouts to earn his first victory of the season.
- Four times during the 2018 season, Song recorded at least 10 strikeouts in four outings
- Played in the Cape Cod Baseball League for the second-straight summer playing for the Orleans Firebirds. He appeared in two games and pitched eight total innings allowing seven hits, three runs and striking out nine batters. He held a record of 0-1 with a 3.37 ERA.
2017 (Sophomore)
- Appeared and started a team-high 13 games, compiling a 3.67 ERA and 89 strikeouts over 76.0 innings on the mound
- Ranked second in the Patriot League in strikeouts and 61st nationally with a 10.54 strikeout/9 ratio
- Fourth on the team and seventh in the league in ERA amongst pitchers with more than 25 innings pitched
- Credited with six "quality starts" with a season-best 7.0 shutout innings with five hits and 13 strikeouts versus Air Force (2/24)
- Tallied five or more strikeouts in 11 of 13 starts with nine or more coming versus Air Force-13 (2/24), Princeton-10 (3/24) and Lehigh-9 (4/15)
- Earned Patriot League Pitcher of the Week honors following his Air Force start
- Posted Mids' second lowest opposing batting average against at .240 on staff amongst pitchers with 10 or more innings pitched
- Held right-handed batters to a .200 (39-195) batting average; with runners on, opponents hit just .241 (32-133); fourth lowest mark on the team
- First Navy player since Mitch Harris in 2007 to play in the Cape Cod Baseball League as he suited up for the Harwich Mariners and finished with a line of 10.0 innings pitched and three runs allowed on 12 hits and two walks with nine total strikeouts; Had an 0-1 record and 2.70 ERA over his stay with the Mariners
2016 (Freshman)
- Named to Louisville Slugger and NCBWA Freshman All-American teams
- Patriot League's Rookie of the Year
- Ranked top-50 amongst NCAA DI pitchers in three categories: 13th with a 5.85 hits allowed/9 ratio, 16th in WHIP (0.96) and 43rd in wins (9)
- Finished top-six in five statistics amongst Patriot League starting pitchers (50+ innings): First in opponents' batting average (.182), first in wins (9), second in ERA (2.75), third in total innings pitched (75.1) and sixth in strikeouts (57)
- Win total is tied for third-most by a single Navy pitcher in one season and opponents' batting average is fourth-lowest in a single season.
- Pitched three complete game shutouts and two combined: NJIT (9.0 IP, 3H) on Mar. 20, Holy Cross (7.0 IP, 1H) on Apr. 3, Lehigh (7.0 IP, 1H) on Apr. 17 and combined versus Air Force (2.0 IP-relief) on Feb. 27 and at Bucknell (6.0 IP-start, 3H) on May 1
- Set a Patriot League with five Rookie of the Week honors (3/21, 4/4, 4/18, 5/2 and 5/9)
- Made collegiate debut at North Carolina A&T (2/20) and threw 4.0 innings of one-hit, one-run relief
- Struck out a season-high seven batters against Army (4/24)
- Against Bucknell in the Patriot League Semifinals (5/15), tossed 8.1 innings of four-hit, two-run ball in Navy's 5-3 win; improved win total to nine
- In his 13 starts, opponents recorded just 22 runs over 65.2 innings; in relief it was one run over 9.2
- Credited with quality starts of 6.0+ IP and 3 or less ERs in five starts; four versus Patriot League opposition
- In-conference stats: 4-0, 1.48 ERA, 30.1 IP, 16 H, 5 ER, 22 K, .148 OBA
- Finished the regular season with a 2.15 ERA
High School
- Lettered three times for Ron LaChase at Claremont HS
- Selected to the All-Sierra League Second Team in 2015
- Named to Perfect Game's All-California Region honorable mention team in 2015
Personal
- Son of Bill and Stacy
- Likes playing his guitar, as well as fishing and traveling
- Sister Faith played four years ('12-15) of softball at William Jewell College and cousin Michael Russo (Class of '18) is an outfielder at Cal State Northridge
