ARIZONA WESTERN COLLEGE: Spent two seasons playing for John Stratton at Arizona Western College … pitched 69 innings with a 2.70 ERA in 2011.

HIGH SCHOOL: Coached by Corey Nicholson at North Eugene High School … Highlanders won Midwestern League Championship in 2007 … lettered all four years in baseball, two years in swimming and one year in football … earned first-team All-State pitcher his final three seasons, Midwestern League MVP in 2008 and played for the Washington Nationals in the 2008 area code games.

PERSONAL: Timothy Keller was born on March 21, 1991, in Eugene, Ore. … son of Lynn and Charlie Keller … has an older brother, Jon … majoring in communications.