University of South Alabama Athletics

SOUTH ALABAMA
2025 (Senior): Named 2025 Second Team All-Sun Belt Starting Pitcher … Made nine starts in 12 appearances for a 3.53 ERA and a 7-2 record across a career-high 66.1 innings … Allowed 60 hits and 15 walks for a 1.13 WHIP and issued 39 strikeouts and a .242 opposing batting average … Won his first four starts of the season against Louisiana (3/22), at No. 13 Southern Miss (3/29), Georgia Southern (4/5), and at Arkansas State (4/12) … Threw a career high 124 pitches in win against Troy (5/3) … Set career-high innings pitched with 7.1 innings at Arkansas State (4/12), then tied it with his outings against Troy (5/3) and at ULM (5/16) … Made team-high six Quality Starts (six or more innings pitched and three or fewer earned runs allowed) … Finished the season with an .850 fielding percentage, with five putouts and 12 assists, and involved in one double play, while recording the Jags’ only pickoff of the season. 

2024 (Junior): Made 12 appearances, all as a pitcher with a 2-2 record… Started six games and came in relief in six for 22.0 innings and a 6.95 ERA … Recorded a 1.81 WHIP with a 9.4 K/9 … Threw a season high four strikeouts against New Orleans (3/6) … Logged back-to-back wins in appearances against Arkansas State (4/12) and Texas State (4/20) … Turned a double play at Texas State (4/20) and tallied a pickoff against Nicholls State (2/28).
2023 (Sophomore): Appeared in 29 games, with 10 of 11 appearances on the mound as starts and the other 18 starts at 3rd … Recorded a 3-2 record and South’s only complete games of the season … Pitched with a 4.76 ERA, 1.37 WHIP, and 7.35 K/9 on 45.1 innings pitched … Struck out seven batters during his win against Georgia State (4/22) … Recorded .222 batting average in 63 at bats, with seven RBIs and nine runs scored … Drew 10 walks and logged two extra-base hits … logged three base on balls, four RBIs, and two runs in his two at bats against Eastern Kentucky (2/18, Game 2).
Junior College:  Named 2022 Alabama Community College Conference (ACCC) North Division Player of the Year after batting .387 with 12 doubles, one triple, 11 home runs, 52 RBIs, 51 runs scored, six stolen bases, .475 on-base percentage and .690 slugging percentage as a freshman ... Also named All-South District and All-North Division by the ACCC in 2022 ... Went 4-1 with six saves on the mound, and recorded a 0.64 ERA with 36 strikeouts in 28 1/3 innings pitched.

High School:  Lettered three years at North Paulding High School in Dallas, Ga. ... Named the Class 7A Player of the Year by the Georgia Baseball Coaches Association as a senior, as well as the Paulding County 7A Player of the Year ... Helped the Wolves to a state runner-up finish in 2021 ... Holds the school single-season record for hits with 53 ... Batted .385 as a senior while posting a 2.05 ERA on the mound.

Personal:  Full name is Mitchell Lawrence Heer ... Born Sept. 3, 2002, in Acworth, Ga. ... The second of two children to Michael Heer and Angela Bye ... Cousin, Cole Heer, played four years of soccer at Air Force ... Majoring in sport management.