Slegers attended Notre Dame Preparatory High School in Scottsdale , Arizona . He pitched for the school 's baseball team , spending most of his junior year on the junior varsity team . He underwent a growth spurt between his junior and senior years , increasing from to , and resulting arm pain as his bones grew faster than his tendons limited him to only two innings pitched in his senior year . He enrolled at Indiana University Bloomington , where he made the Indiana Hoosiers baseball team as a walk-on . He threw one inning before he suffered a broken wrist when hit by a line drive . The next year , he had a stress fracture in his right tibia . His injuries limited him to throwing total innings in his freshman and sophomore years . In 2013 , his junior year , Slegers helped Indiana win the Big Ten Conference 's regular-season championship and the conference tournament , and Indiana appeared in the 2013 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament . He was named the Big Ten Conference Baseball Pitcher of the Year after going 9-2 with a 2.04 ERA
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2013 Big Ten Conference Baseball Tournament
Aaron Slegers