re: Official MLB draft thread

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Winners

LSU
The Tigers can keep the celebrations from this year’s national championship rolling after the way the draft shook out. LSU on Sunday became the first program in MLB draft history to have teammates selected first and second when Paul Skenes and Dylan Crews went to the Pirates and Nationals, respectively. In all, 13 Tigers were drafted, the most in the country and the most in a 20-round draft. Jay Johnson’s recruiting pitch nearly writes itself: come to LSU, compete for a national title, get drafted.

Adding to that success was LSU nearly holding its recruiting class completely intact. It lost prep catcher Blake Mitchell as a top-10 pick but is unlikely to lose any other commits. Most significantly, lefthander Cameron Johnson (No. 43 on the BA 500) was not drafted until the 20th round and is not expected to sign. Lefthander Jake Brown (118) and outfielder Ashton Larson (272) were also drafted in the final five rounds but are expected to go to school. LSU will also get lefthander Kade Anderson, who withdrew from the draft and ranked No. 280 before opting out (players who cannot be drafted are removed from the BA 500).

LSU’s 2023 recruiting class won’t be as highly touted as its top-ranked 2022 group, but a strong influx of talent is still headed to Baton Rouge. The Tigers really couldn’t have asked for anything more out of this week.

Stanford
Texas
UCLA

Losers

Arkansas
FSU
Oregon

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