HANOVER, N.H. — As part of its preseason college baseball coverage, D1Baseball.com has ranked college baseball players by their position with Dartmouth junior
Tyler Cox earning a top-50 ranking at shortstop entering the 2023 season. The 2022 Ivy League Rookie of the Year and Blair Bat Award winner came in at No. 46 on the list, the only Ivy Leaguer to make the cut.
A native of Valley Glen, California, Cox was the catalyst at the top of the 2022 Big Green offense that averaged 7.16 runs per game, the program's highest output in 13 years. The All-Ivy League First Team selection hit .402/.452/.484 while starting all 43 games, ranking fifth in the country in hits per game (1.72), ninth in toughest to strike out (once every 15.3 at-bats) and 10th in batting average. Cox also had 74 hits, one shy of the program record, as he became the first Dartmouth player to top .400 for a season in 18 years, stroking 10 doubles, a triple and a home run to go with 40 RBIs and a team-high 41 runs scored. In Ivy League play, he hit a whopping .464 with a .514 on-base percentage while playing his position with equal success, committing just one error in the 21 games for a .987 fielding percentage.
Dartmouth, which opens its season with a three-game series at preseason No. 22/8 Miami beginning on Friday, Feb. 24 at 7 p.m., completed the 2022 season with a 24-19 overall record and 14-7 mark in the Ancient Eight. The Big Green were picked to finish right where it ended up last year in the conference (third) by the folks at D1Baseball.com. The good news is that a third-place finish this year would qualify Dartmouth for the Ivy League Tournament with the expansion of the event from the top two teams to the top four.
All three games at Miami, which the Big Green defeated in a three-game series in 2017 during their last trip to Coral Gables, will be available to watch live on ACCNX.
Notes: A total of seven Ivy Leaguers were listed at their respective positions; Cox joined Columbia catcher Weston Eberly (37) and outfielder Cole Hage (122 of 150), Harvard first baseman Logan Bravo (40) and starting pitcher Jay Driver (60 of 200), and Penn third baseman Wyatt Henseler (13) and catcher Jackson Appel (38).