Right-handed pitchers Alex Butler from Baylor School and Matthew Pigg from Walker Valley are among the six 2018 early signees announced this week by Lee University baseball coach Mark Brew, along with Soddy-Daisy outfielder Joshua Perez and Ringgold catcher Gavin Hollis.
The others are East Georgia State outfielder Parker Stahlman from Perry, Ga., and Oakland High middle infielder Zac Lemerand from Murfreesboro.
“We have one of the larger early signing classes we have inked. We have a large group of seniors this year, and we felt the need to be more aggressive in the early signing period,” Brew said in a Lee release. “They all check the priority boxes we value in a recruit.”
Pigg, Perez and Hollis all played for the Exposure club program and coach Brandon Turner, while Butler has been with the Chattanooga Cyclones and George Koontz.
Brew said Butler has improved “tremendously” the past few years.