{"id":388183,"date":"2026-09-02T11:04:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T11:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/388183\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T11:04:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T11:04:19","slug":"liberty-creeks-drew-massey-commits-to-jacksonville-state-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/388183\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty Creek\u2019s Drew Massey commits to Jacksonville State baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/mainstreetmediatn.com\/author\/BLAINE+KELLAR\" onclick=\"_paq.push([&#039;trackEvent&#039;, &#039;Author Byline View&#039;, &#039;BLAINE KELLAR&#039;]);\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BLAINE KELLAR<\/a><br \/>Main Street Preps\t\t<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/0519_SPO_Liberty_Creek_vs_Heritage_Baseball_809-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1995029\"  \/>Liberty Creek\u2019s pitcher Drew Massey gets set to throw the ball in their Class 3A state tournament game against Heritage at Blackman\u2019s David Price Field in Murfreesboro. SHANE POTTER<\/p>\n<p>Liberty Creek junior pitcher Drew Massey\u2019s commitment \u2014 to Jacksonville State on Tuesday \u2014 marked yet another baseball branch for their family tree.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Massey was the District 9-3A MVP and a Tennessee Sports Writers Association All-State selection as a sophomore, recording a 1.25 ERA and 69 strikeouts in 44 \u2154 innings.\u00a0Also a corner outfielder for the Wolves, who reached the TSSAA Class 3A tournament, he hit .330 at the plate with 17 RBIs, 16 walks and just 18 strikeouts in over 100 plate appearances.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He is the son of former Mr. Baseball winner and Austin Peay standout Seth Massey \u2013 now Liberty Creek\u2019s athletic director \u2013 and the younger brother of Matthew Massey, who starred at Station Camp then signed with Freed-Hardeman.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His uncle John caught at Ole Miss and Tennessee before becoming a two-time MLB draftee, first by the Chicago Cubs in the 18th round then in the 31st round to the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2000. His cousins are former Vanderbilt pitcher Will Clinard and recent Los Angeles Angels call-up Luke Murphy.<\/p>\n<p>Drew Massey is the second Division I baseball commit from Sumner County since the summer, joining Beech senior and Florida pledge Liam Dougherty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BLAINE KELLARMain Street Preps Liberty Creek\u2019s pitcher Drew Massey gets set to throw the ball in their Class&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-388183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}