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Who will hit more homers in their LSU career Omar Serna, Dominic Santarelli, or Koa Romero

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I’m not trying to be a prick when I say this —

Not here, please.

We’ve had a lot of those over the years.

What first comes to mind reading that is 2017, beating then 56-4 Oregon State in back-to-back days without Poche, Walker, or Newman.

Or beating then 58-5 Texas A&M twice in 2 days in College Station in 1989, after playing 2 games just the day before, and 6 total across 4 days. Ben and Curtis Leskanic were men.

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Shorter guy listed at 5'9 200

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Short isn’t the only thing that comes to mind with this build.

18th different HR related thread in the past month. Impressive feat honestly.

A few interesting tidbits now that the draft is over:

- UNC’s Gavin Gallaher (still haunting me from 2024 postseason) is MLB Draft’s highest rated college player to not get drafted. He’ll return to UNC for his senior year.

- I know a lot of chatter was had about Vandy’s top-heavy class and how even their local media had no idea how the draft process works, but they managed to get multiple top players onto campus. 4 top-200 signees failed to get drafted (3 in top-100). LSU tied Vandy for 2nd with that figure of 4 top ranked players failing to be drafted (does not include Washington or Santarelli as they did get drafted). Tennessee notches the top spot having 5 signees in top-200 fail to get drafted.

- Other top returning players include Auburn’s starting SS, Brandon McCraine, and Florida’s starting 3B, Ethan Surowiec, going undrafted. Both, of whom were DES, will return to school for their junior seasons.

- What I thought would be draft casualty will actually end up in Knoxville for 2027. LHP Ricky Ojeda, who spent the last 3 years at UC-Irvine, entered the portal and recently announced his transfer commitment to Tennessee, and by day’s end today, Ricky did not hear his name selected. He will be a senior.

- The son of Jorvorskie Lane (yes, you read that right) will make his way to Fayetteville to play baseball in 2027 and beyond. He was just outside of a top-200 overall player.

Note: Rankings are MLB Draft rankings. Includes all draft eligible players across HS, JUCO, and 4Y colleges.

Only bc his traps are an 80.

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I hope he got more confirmation than just that text bc "Mane let's do it!" Is hardly definitive

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Agreed. I mean, Washington posting that is better than him not saying anything at all, but this is far from done. And folks in media reporting it as him “bypassing” the draft is either purposely mischaracterized or grossly negligent. These teams are not yet in position to make any of these round 17+ draftees their best numbers. Still weeks for this to shake out. If Washington has a figure, given where he’s been selected, this process has to play out before Pitt either can or can’t meet it. Multiple independent dominos have to fall first.

Cowan to Cleveland in 19th (573 overall). Good for him. Wish him the very best.

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now do Dominic Santarelli with seattle

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I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Santarelli is Seattle’s first and only draftee out of high school.

I’m not even going to waste my time on the other data points.

Round 18 been betty betty bad to me.