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Will Skenes or Crews go first? How much of LSU’s recruiting class do the Tigers hold on to?

The Pittsburgh Pirates have selected hard-throwing LSU right-handed pitcher Paul Skenes with the top pick in baseball’s amateur draft. Skenes went 12-3 as a pitcher, with 209 strikeouts in 122

18-year-old Noble Meyer, a University of Oregon commit, stands 6-5 and has a fastball that touched 97-98 mph to go along with a mid-80s slider and a changeup.

Kyle Teel, projected ahead of the 2023 MLB Draft to go as high as third, dropped a bit before being taken with the 14th pick by the Boston Red Sox.

SEATTLE -- The talent was massive, and so was the setting. Everything about the 2023 MLB Draft just felt and looked bigger. With an especially deep pool of players -- including two college teammates among a handful of players with a legit chance of going No. 1 overall -- this

The Kansas City Royals tonight selected Blake Mitchell, a left-handed hitting catcher from Texas with the 8th overall pick

Here's who won and lost on the first day of the 2023 MLB Draft..

The KC Royals take XXXX eight overall in the 2023 MLB Draft, adding the talented backstop to their farm system.

BATON ROUGE, La. – LSU right-handed pitcher Ty Floyd was selected Sunday night in the MLB Draft Competitive Balance Round A (38th pick overall) by the Cincinnati Reds.

Blake Mitchell is a high school catcher with a big future ahead of him, and the Royals made him their first pick of this year’s draft on Sunday evening.