Waterville, Me.: The North Atlantic Conference (NAC) announced today that SUNY Cobleskill junior Wyatt Palmer, Camden, N.Y., Camden High School/Cayuga Community College, has been named the conference’s 2022 NAC Baseball Pitcher-of-the-Year. The right-handed starter earned All-NAC Western Division Team honors during the season while being named the league’s Pitcher-of-the-Week four times during the year. He becomes the first Fighting Tiger pitcher in program history to earn NAC Pitcher-of-the-Year honors.
During the season became the ace of the Fighting Tiger pitching staff this year as the transfer from Cayuga Community College posted a 7-2 record in nine starts to lead all NAC pitchers in victories with a 2.86 ERA in 50.1 innings of work hurling a pair of complete games including a nine-inning shutout. The Camden, N.Y. native held opposing hitters to a .257 batting average on the year striking our 33 hitters while walking 18.
Cobleskill Head Lance Ratchford believed the junior right hander was the key to the team’s success because of his work on the mound throughout the year.
“Wyatt Palmer was dominate all year for us and became the ace of our pitching staff. He made an immediate impact to our rotation and really got better with every start. He understands how to pitch and what he has to do in order to be successful."
During the 2022 season Cobleskill posted their third consecutive winning season posting a 21-20 overall record capturing the league’s Western Division Championship for the second consecutive season with an 11-4 conference mark while making their third conference post-season appearance in four years.
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