Phillips Academy Student Named Gatorade's Mass Baseball Player of Year

CHICAGO, IL— A Phillips Academy student was named the 2021-22 Gatorade Massachusetts Baseball Player of the Year and is the first Gatorade Massachusetts Baseball Player of the Year to be chosen from Phillips Academy.

Thomas White of Andover is a 6-foot-5, 209-pound junior left-handed pitcher who led the Big Blues to an 18-3 record and the Central New England Prep School Baseball League Tournament championship this past season. White compiled a 6-1 record on the mound with a 0.21 earned run average, striking out 70 batters while allowing just 10 hits in 33 innings. He allowed more than two hits just once in seven starts. He was a 2021 First Team All-New England selection by the New England Baseball Journal.

White was recognized for outstanding athletic excellence, high academic achievement standards and exemplary character demonstrated on and off the field. In addition, white has volunteered locally as part of a fundraising campaign to benefit the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. He has also donated his time as a youth baseball coach in addition to visiting patients at a children’s hospital as a Perfect Game Ambassador.

“Thomas has a calm, mature presence about him on the mound and is able to locate well with his fastball on both sides of the plate,” said Tim Mitropolous, head coach of Phillips Exeter Academy. “I think his best quality is when we did get a runner or two on base, Thomas turned up his game to another level. He increased his velocity and was able to just shut down that momentum.”

White has maintained a B average in the classroom. He has made a verbal commitment to play baseball on scholarship at Vanderbilt University beginning in the fall of 2023.