In 2021, he was named the Big Ten Player of the Year and the John Olerud Two-Way Player of the Year...Was also a Golden Spikes Award Semifinalist, ABCA/Rawlings First-Team All-American, D1 Baseball First-Team All-American, Baseball America Second Team All-American and Collegiate Baseball Second-Team All-American...Played shortstop in 48 games for the Cornhuskers while hitting .284 with 40 RBI, six home runs and nine stolen bases...Went 3-1 with 10 saves and a 0.57 ERA (2 ER/31.2 IP) in 18 relief appearances with Nebraska...Played for Nebraska from 2019-21...Was named a team captain in 2021...Played High School baseball at Saginaw Heritage in Michigan...Had a career .416 batting average, six homers and 112 RBI...Went 18-6 with a 0.73 ERA in 154.0 frames...Drafted by Cleveland in the 34th round of the 2018 MLB June Amateur Draft: did not sign...Drafted by the Atlanta Braves in the second round of the 2021 First-Year Player Draft out of the University of Nebraska.
2024
In his fi rst year with Atlanta and second professional season, Schwellenbach went 8-7 with a 3.35 ERA (46 ER/123.2 IP) over 21 starts...Made his debut on May 29 against Washington, allowing five hits and three runs while fanning five hitters...Made a combined eight starts between Double-A Mississippi and High-A Rome before Atlanta selected his contract...Before joining Atlanta’s rotation, Schwellenbach went a combined 9-3 with a 2.21 ERA over 24 starts across three levels (Mississippi, Rome and Single-A Augusta) of the Braves’ farm system dating to his professional debut in 2023...Pitched 13 scoreless innings in two starts with the M-Braves while recording 17 strikeouts and issuing just one walk, earning the win in both games...Made six starts for the Emperors and went 2-1 with a 2.53 ERA this season...His 122 strikeouts through his first 20 career games were the most by a Braves player through as many games to begin their career in franchise history...Schwellenbach struck out 42 hitters in the month of August; the most by a Braves pitcher in franchise history in their first year in a single calendar month...Became the first pitcher in the live ball era to have at least 77 strikeouts and issue 12 walks or less through a player’s first 12 career games...Fanned 11 Mets hitters while scattering two hits over seven scoreless innings on July 27...The 11 strikeouts set a new career high...Since the mound moved to its current distance in 1893, he is just the third rookie to strike out at least 10 in two straight starts, following Dwight Gooden (Sept. 12 and 17, 1984) and Cincinnati’s Nick Lodolo (Sept. 9 and 14, 2022)...Became the first player in Braves franchise history to strike out at least 10 hitters without allowing a run in one of his first 10 career games...Became the third Braves rookie in franchise history with seven or more shutout innings, no walks, and 11 or more strikeouts...Bob Sadowski on Sept. 5, 1963 and Spencer Strider, Sept. 1, 2022 are the other two...Became the only rookie in the modern era to strikeout eight or more hitters without issuing a walk in three consecutive starts (July 21-Aug. 2)...Credit StatsPerform...Produced a 34.3% chase rate this season, the second highest rate among pitchers with at least 10 starts this year...Trailed only Philadelphia’s Christopher Sánchez (36.9%)...Threw strikes on 69.3% of his pitches, the highest mark among MLB starters with at least 10 outings...Schwellenbach went 7-3 with a 2.87 ERA against teams with .500 records or better this year...Only Pittsburgh’s Paul Skenes (2.32) and LA’s Yoshinobu Yamamoto (NL - 2.28) have lower ERA’s among rookies against such clubs this season (min. 10 starts)...Went 2-0 with a 0.86 ERA in three starts against New York (NL)...Struck out 20 Mets hitters while only issuing one walk and averaged seven innings pitched between the three outings.
