2025: Limited to nine appearances and two starts due to injury…Struck out 13 batters in 14.0 innings of work… Made season debut on March 18 at Charlotte… Tossed scoreless inning against Old Dominion on March 29 in first conference outing…Made first Sun Belt start of the season on April 12 at Marshall.

2024: Made 18 appearances in relief...Went 1-2 with a 6.02 ERA...Struck out 36 batters in 40.1 innings...Escaped bases-loaded jam against High Point on Feb. 20...Earned save at Southern Illinois on March 2 with four scoreless innings in relief, striking out four, without allowing a hit...Fired 2.2 scoreless innings against No. 13 Coastal Carolina, without allowing a hit, to earn the win in relief...Struck out four in 3.1 scoreless innings in relief against Marshall, March 28...Threw a career-high five innings in relief against South Alabama on May 3...Struck out four in 3.2 scoreless innings against Troy in the Sun Belt Tournament on May 21.

2023: Went 3-2 with a 3.50 ERA and a save in 19 appearances (2 starts)...Began his season with four scoreless innings in a start against High Point...Out Feb. 27 - March 21 due to injury...returned to action as a member of the bullpen, tossing three scoreless innings in relief against the College of Charleston March 21...Allowed two earned runs or fewer in each of his final 13 outings on the season, pitching in multiple innings in all of them...Earned relief wins over Old Dominion, JMU, and Arkansas State...Recorded lone save in win at Georgia Southern on April 14 to secure Kermit Smith's 600th career win...Struck out season-high five batters at Troy on May 18 in three scoreless innings...Made two appearances in the Sun Belt Tournament.

Prior to App State: Welch came to the Mountaineers from Florence Darlington, where he last pitched in 2021. That season he appeared in six games, making four starts, and went 3-1 with a 4.58 ERA, striking out 22 batters in 19.2 innings of work. Welch is originally from Lillington, N.C., where he played for Western Harnett High School. He features a mid-90s fastball, a curveball and a changeup.