2024 Baseball Roster
Roster
Cijntje, Jurrangelo

Jersey Number 50
Jurrangelo Cijntje
- Position:
- Pitcher
- Ht./Wt.:
- 5-11 / 200
- B/T:
- S/S
- Class:
- Sophomore
- Hometown:
- Pembroke Pines, Fla.
- High School/Previous School:
- Champagnat Catholic HS
Bio
Honors / Awards
2024 Second Team Perfect Game All-American (P)2024 Second Team NCBWA All-American (P)
2024 ABCA/Rawlings South All-Region First Team (P)
2024 SEC Spring Academic Honor Roll
2023 First-Year SEC Academic Honor Roll
Career Notes & Records
Draft: Picked by the Seattle Mariners with the 15th overall pick in the First Round of the 2024 Major League Baseball Draft... This was Mississippi State's 20th first-round pick.
2024 (Sophomore Season)
Season: Named to Second Team Perfect Game and NCBWA All-American … Was an ABCA/Rawlings First Team All-Region selection … Appeared in and started 16 games … Tied for most wins in the pitching staff with eight … Finished with an 8-2 record through 90.2 innings pitched … Had 113 strikeouts, the most on the team and fifth in the SEC … Posted the third best ERA on the team, with a 3.67 ERA … Forty of his 113 strikeouts were looking, which were the second most in the SEC … His 90.2 innings pitched were the seventh most by an SEC pitcher … Posted the 14th best strikeout-to-walk ratio at 3.77 … Posted the seventh best WHIP (1.10) in the SEC.
Air Force (2/18): Made first start of the season … Struck out eight with a single run surrendered through four innings pitched. Georgia Southern (2/25): Picked up first win with seven punchouts and a single hit allowed in five innings of work. Mount St. Mary’s (3/2): Had 10 strikeouts, first game of the season with double digit punchouts … Did not surrender a run in 6.2 innings of work to pick up second win. Evansville (3/10): Second straight game with 10 strikeouts … Pitched six innings with three runs and walks allowed. LSU (3/17): Earned fourth straight win. Texas A&M (3/23): Surrendered seven hits and five runs with four strikeouts through 5.2 innings pitched. Florida (3/30): Tallied eight punchouts with just two walks in season-high seven innings pitched to secure fifth win. Georgia (4/6): Did not surrender a walk and struck out eight in five innings of work. Ole Miss (4/13): Pitched three innings with three punchouts. Auburn (4/21): Earned sixth win with five punchouts in 6.2 innings pitched. Vanderbilt (4/28): Set new career-high strikeouts with 11 Commodores in 5.1 innings of work. Alabama (5/4): Tied season-high innings pitched with seven … Had eight strikeouts. Arkansas (5/11): Struck out one with four runs surrendered, two earned, three walks in 4.1 innings of work. Missouri (5/17): Third game of the season with seven innings pitched. Vanderbilt (5/23): Fourth game of the season with double digit punchouts … Pitched six innings with a single walk surrendered. Virginia (6/1): Punched out five in seven innings of work.
2023 (Freshman Season)
Season: Made 14 appearances on the season with 13 being starts… Pitched a team-high 50 innings on the season… Finished the season with a record of 3-5… Led the team with 63 strikeouts on the season… Held opponents to a .238 average on the season… Pitched a season-high six innings against Lipscomb on March 10… Tallied a season-best nine strikeouts against South Carolina on March 30…. Had six games of five or more strikeouts on the season.
VMI (2/19): Made his first collegiate appearance on the mound in game three, earning his first victory after throwing one inning in relief. ULM (2/22): Earned his first career start...Threw four scoreless innings, picking up seven total strikeouts, allowing only one hit and one walk. Ohio State (3/3): Held the Buckeyes to one hit in four innings...Struck four batters out while allowing two walks, one hit and one unearned run. Lipscomb (3/10): Allowed just one hit in six innings of work, picking up eight K's on the day. Kentucky (3/17): Made his first SEC start, striking out six Wildcats in five innings of work. South Carolina (3/30): Picked up nine strikeouts in five innings, resulted in a no decision. Ole Miss (4/16): Allowed just three hits to the Rebels in 5.2 innings, picking up seven strikeouts and allowing just one earned run. Auburn (4/23): Picked up six punch outs in 5.0 innings of work, allowed a single walk. Tennessee (4/29): Struck out a single Vol in an inning pitched. Arkansas (5/7): Through 3.2 innings pitched he struck out four. LSU (5/14): Picked up two punch outs in two innings of work against the Tigers. Texas A&M (5/20): Walked a single Aggie through 3.0 innings pitched.
High School
Drafted in the 18-th round by the Milwaukee Brewers as a shortstop… Was a two-year letterman at Champagnat Catholic High School in Miami, Fla … In 81 innings of work throughout his high school career, Cijntje recorded a 2.32 ERA and allowed 39 hits, 39 runs while also walking 31 batters … He had a 7-6 record but struck out 166 batters and recorded a 0.86 WHIP average … Ranked as the No. 1 BHP in the nation and in the state of Florida, the No. 34 overall pitcher in the nation and the No. 9 overall prospect in the state of Florida by Perfect Game … Perfect Game also rated him as a 10/10 prospect.
Personal
Father played professionally in The Netherlands... Played for Curaçao at the 2016 Little League World Series... He is naturally left-handed but began throwing right-handed as early as 6 years old to mimic his father.
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