• All-Region, Second Team (ABCA, 2025)

• D1Baseball.com SEC Extra Pitcher of the Week (Week 3, 2025)

2025

Made 15 starts…Pitched to a 6-3 record with a 3.25 ERA…Struck out 92 in 83 innings, allowing just 54 hits…Had seven quality starts…Lefties hit just .165 against him…Named 2^nd Team All-Region by the American Baseball Coaches Association…Was D1Baseball.com’s SEC Extra Pitcher of the Week after throwing a career-high 7.1 innings with 11 strikeouts vs. Hofstra on March 1 in a game where he allowed no runs on one hit…Helped UK win a series at Tennessee with a series-clinching 7.0 innings of two-run baseball…Had most strikeouts by a Wildcat in a season since Zack Thompson in 2019…Went 4-2 with a 3.88 ERA in 10 SEC starts.

2024

Appeared in six games…Had a 4.26 ERA in 6.1 innings…Allowed just four hits and struck out 11…Picked up a series-clinching save at Florida on May 12, striking out a batter with the winning run on base for the Gators…Struck out a career-high three in career-high 2.0 innings vs. South Carolina in the SEC Tournament…Struck out two of the three batters he faced in the College World Series…Was unscored upon in five of six outings…Opponents batted just .182 against him on the season.

HIGH SCHOOL
The angular left-handed pitcher was ranked No. 147 overall and No. 21 southpaw nationally by Prep Baseball Report…Played for Mike McLaury at Independence High School, which won its district in 2021 and 2023 and its region in 2023…In 2022, was the District 12-AAAA Pitcher of the Year and member of the all-state team.

PERSONAL
Full name is Elliott Benjamin Cleaver…Born in Indianapolis, Indiana…Son of Jon and Jen…Has two older siblings, Max and Grace…Major is Finance…Pitches left-handed but throws other balls right-handed.