Aaron Blair

Blair then became the highest drafted player in Marshall University baseball history when the Arizona Diamondbacks selected him in the 1st round with the 36th pick.

He was 7–0 his junior year and became a Nevada 1st Team All-State player his senior year while leading all Nevada 4A pitchers with 91 strikeouts in 64 innings.

He had 9 complete games out of 10 starts.

He added a .449 average with 7 home runs and 43 RBIs his senior year.

Though not highly recruited coming out of high school, Blair caught the eye of Marshall University while playing for the Ohio Warhawks in the WWBA World Championship in Jupiter, Florida, during the fall of his senior year.

Blair agreed to attend Marshall on a scholarship, where he would play college baseball for the Marshall Thundering Herd.

As a freshman, Blair led the team in ERA with a 2.72 while being named to the Conference USA All-Freshmen team.

His sophomore year Blair led the Thundering Herd pitching staff in starts (14).

innings pitched (83 2⁄3) and strikeouts (82).

During the summer between his sophomore and junior year, Blair played in the Cape Cod Baseball League for the Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox.

He was named Pitcher of the Week for the first and second weeks of the season as he went on to lead the Cape Cod Baseball League in ERA with a 1.17 while going 6–0 and then adding two wins in the Cape Cod Baseball League playoffs.

In an elimination game in the championship series, Blair went seven innings while allowing two hits and striking out ten to force a final game.

As a junior, Blair was added to the Golden Spikes Award watch list.

Blair was named a 1st Team Conference USA pitcher.

Aaron Daniel Blair (born May 26, 1992) is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent.

Blair was selected in the 21st round of the 2010 MLB draft by the Houston Astros.

He chose to attend Marshall University, where he played for the Marshall Thundering Herd baseball team.

Included in his season was an 8 inning, 2 hit, 11 strikeout and no run game against the 19th ranked Houston Cougars in a 4–0 win to earn Blair Louisville Slugger National Pitcher of the Week.

He finished his Marshall career with 200 strikeouts in 202 innings.

The Arizona Diamondbacks selected Blair with the 36th pick of the 2013 MLB draft.

The Arizona Diamondbacks selected Blair with the 36th pick in the 2013 MLB draft.

Blair signed with the Diamondbacks for a $1.435 million signing bonus and was assigned to the Hillsboro Hops of the Class A-Short Season Northwest League.

He was promoted in August to the South Bend Silver Hawks of the Midwest League, where he won two playoff games.

Blair started the 2014 campaign in South Bend but was promoted to High A Advanced Visalia Rawhide after six starts in South Bend.

In his debut for Visala, Blair went seven innings, allowing one run on three hits, walking two and striking out nine.

Blair would make 12 more starts for Visalia before being promoted, this time to the Southern League with the AA Mobile BayBears.

Blair dominated in his first two Southern League starts, pitching a combined 13 2⁄3 innings, allowing 1 run and 8 hits while striking out 16 and walking 1.

Those performances also earned him the Southern League's Pitcher of the Week award.

Blair finished the 2014 season with Mobile with a 4–1 record in 8 starts, covering 46 1⁄3 innings with a 1.94 ERA to go along with 46 strikeouts.

The season totals were a 9–5 record over 27 starts and 154 1⁄3 innings.

He struck out 171 hitters while walking 51.

He was also named the Arizona Diamondbacks 2014 Minor League Pitcher of the Year.

He was traded to the Atlanta Braves by the Diamondbacks as part of a five-player deal announced December 9, 2015.

Both MLB.com and Baseball America ranked Blair the Diamondbacks' third best prospect prior to the start of the 2015 season.

He started the year back in Mobile and made 13 starts, finishing with a record of 6–3 and an ERA of 2.70 over 83 1⁄3 innings before he was promoted to the AAA Reno Aces in June, where he continued his successful 2015 campaign.

Blair ended his Reno stint with a record of 7–2 and an ERA of 3.16 in the hitting-friendly Pacific Coast League.

He was also named the Diamondbacks 2015 Organizational Pitcher of the Year.

On December 9, 2015, the Diamondbacks traded Blair, along with Dansby Swanson and Ender Inciarte, to the Atlanta Braves for Shelby Miller and Gabe Speier.

Blair made his Major League Baseball (MLB) debut in 2016 for the Braves.

A native of Las Vegas, Nevada, Blair threw a no-hitter in his sophomore year at Spring Valley High School.