page_title: Seth Maness
section_title: Early life and amateur career
hierarchical_section_title: Seth Maness / Early life and amateur career
caption_attribution_description: English: Professional baseball pitcher Seth Maness. Photo was taken September 15, 2011 in Lansing, Michigan. Maness was pitching for the Quad Cities River Bandits, at the time a Class A minor league affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals. Photo courtesy of MWLGuide, a.k.a. Joe Dinda, via Flickr.
context_page_description: Michael Seth Maness is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He previously played in Major League Baseball for the St. Louis Cardinals and Kansas City Royals.
context_section_description: Maness was born in Pinehurst, North Carolina. The son of Michael Maness and Jan Andrews Benton, he has two siblings—Bailey and Tanner. He attended Pinecrest High School in Southern Pines, North Carolina, where he played for the school's baseball team. As a sophomore, he earned first team All-State and conference Player of the Year honors. His father served as one of his coaches.
  Following high school, Maness enrolled at East Carolina University, majoring in accounting. He played college baseball for the East Carolina Pirates where he became a four-time first team All-Conference USA performer (2008–11). In 2009, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Bourne Braves of the Cape Cod Baseball League. He finished his ECU career as the Pirates career leader in wins (38), strike outs (321), innings pitched (411.2), and games started (61). In 2010 Maness was named Conference USA Pitcher of the Year. The Florida Marlins drafted Maness in the 41st round of the 2010 MLB draft, but he did not sign.
caption: Maness pitching for the Quad Cities River Bandits in 2011
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