Middle Tennessee State University Athletics
2025 Baseball Roster
Roster
Burch, Landen
INF
/ BaseballINF/RHP
/ BaseballINF
/ BaseballINF
/ BaseballOF
/ BaseballUTL
/ BaseballOF
/ BaseballOF
/ BaseballRHP
/ BaseballINF
/ BaseballOF
/ BaseballLHP
/ BaseballRHP
/ BaseballRHP
/ BaseballRHP
/ BaseballINF
/ BaseballLHP
/ BaseballC
/ BaseballRHP
/ BaseballOF
/ BaseballRHP
/ BaseballINF
/ BaseballC
/ BaseballLHP
/ BaseballLHP
/ BaseballINF
/ BaseballRHP
/ BaseballLHP/OF
/ BaseballINF
/ BaseballRHP
/ Baseball1B/RHP
/ BaseballOF
/ BaseballINF
/ BaseballRHP
/ BaseballRHP
/ BaseballC
/ BaseballINF
/ BaseballUTL
/ Baseball
Jersey Number 16
Landen Burch
- Position:
- RHP
- Ht./Wt.:
- 6-4 / 200
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- Corning, N.Y.
- High School:
- Corning Painted Post
Bio
Awards
Florida Southwestern CC
2024 (Sophomore)
2023 (Freshman)
- Conference USA Commissioner’s Honor Roll (2024-2025)
- Appeared in 17 games, starting in 5 for the Blue Raiders
- Led the team with three saves
- Was fourth on the team in innings pitched with 37.1 innings pitched
- Made his first appearance on opening day vs. Bowling Green. He threw for the three inning save, allowing 0 runs on one hit while striking out five
- His first Blue Raider start came against Austin Peay on Feb. 25
- Had a scoreless outing against FIU throwing 2.1 innings with just one hit allowed
- Had four straight outings without allowing an earned run from April 12 - April 25 (LA Tech, Belmont, WKU, NM State)
Florida Southwestern CC
2024 (Sophomore)
- Appeared in 16 games, starting in 11 for the Bucs
- He started the year as the closer, but finished the season as the number one starter for FSW
- He tallied 73.1 innings which was second on the team
- Finished 5-3 with a team best 3.56 ERA to earn second Team All-Citrus Conference honors
- Burch led the Bucs with 85 strikeouts on the year while notching a nearly 3-1 strikeout to walk ratio with just 31 free passes on the season
- He was an innings eater for the Bucs, going five or more innings in 9 of his 10 starts after becoming a full time starter midway through the year
- He racked up a career high 11 strikeouts in six innings of work in a win over Daytona State in late March and fired six shutout innings of three hit baseball in FSW’s postseason opener against Santa Fe to earn himself NJCAA National Pitcher of the Week honors
- Was teammates with fellow Blue Raider, Cooper Clapp
2023 (Freshman)
- Appeared in 16 games for the Monarchs
- Finished the season 2-3 with a 6.88 ERA, striking out 30 batters in 34 innings.
- He put together back-to-back solid efforts against Norfolk State and Princeton, going a combined 9.1 innings and allowing just five hits and one run while striking out 14 and not walking a batter to earn his first two collegiate victories.
- Was a 2022 graduate from Corning Painted Post High School (Corning, Ny..)
- Played both basketball and football as well
- As a senior, he was 4-0 on the mound with 48 strikeouts in 24 innings while posting a 0.86 ERA
- Son of Matt and Shannon Burch
- Father Matt played baseball at VCU and was drafted in the first round of the 1998 MLB draft to the Kansas City Royals
- Majoring in Communications
- Born on September 12, 2004 in Elmira, Ny.
Facility tour – Stephen and Denise Smith Student-Athlete Performance Center
Wednesday, July 30
Spring Sports Show hosted by The Boulevard – April 21, 2025: Softball and Baseball
Monday, April 21
🎥 from the 52nd annual Groundhog Day Luncheon! Also, we play baseball this month 🤩
Sunday, February 02
MTSU Baseball 2025 52nd Annual Groundhog Day Luncheon
Friday, January 31
