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MLBs unprecedented July draft includes a few surprises near the top Chelsea Janes, The Washington Post July 11, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Mississippi State pitcher Will Bednar (24) throws during the first inning in Game 3 of the NCAA College World Series baseball finals, Wednesday, June 30, 2021, in Omaha, Neb.Rebecca S. Gratz/AP DENVER - Every year since Major League Baseball began holding an amateur draft in 1965, that draft had been held in June. An additional winter draft came and went, bu...

Photo by Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images With their first selection in the 2021 MLB Draft, the Yankees took Eastern Illinois shortstop Trey Sweeney. New York seemed to be linked mostly to pitching in the leadup to the first round, but a number of interesting arms, such as Will Bednar and Gunnar Hoglund, were selected just ahead of them. Instead, the Yankees took a bat with their top pick for the fourth consecutive year. Sweeney is a 6-foot-4, 200-pound lefty swinger with a fair bit of ...

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share-square-238545 ST. PETERSBURG -- Since Spring Training, the Rays have seen Luis Patiño, Randy Arozarena, Shane McClanahan and Josh Fleming graduate from their Top 30 Prospects list. They’ve promoted switch-hitting infielders Wander Franco, Vidal Bruján and Taylor Walls to the big leagues over the past two months, perhaps for good. In other words, the Rays have pushed much of their organization’s future into the present in half a season. But guess what? Tampa Bay’s system is still l...

Rocco, the No. 6 overall pick in the 2000 Draft and the 2019 AL Manager of the Year, is 16 years older than Dante, who hit .308 for the Eagles in 2021. Player: Darren Baker, 2B, UC Berkeley Relative:Dusty Baker Jr. (father, 19 MLB seasons/Astros manager) No longer most famous for being rescued at home plate by J.T. Snow during the 2002 World Series while serving as a bat boy for his dad’s Giants club, Darren earned All-Pac-12 first-team honors for the Golden Bears this year. Player: Casey Dyk...

Champion Bulldogs: Thousands celebrate Dawgs with parade, ceremony Players and coaches for the Mississippi State University baseball team ride on fire trucks through the streets of Starkville on Friday afternoon in a parade celebrating their winning of the College World Series. Thousands of fans lined the streets and followed the team to Dudy Noble Field for a celebration. Chris Jenkins/Special to The Dispatch Like a storm, it had been building all day. By 3:30 p.m. Friday, as Mississippi St...

WXXV News 25 July 1, 2021 Heading into game three of the College World Series finals, Mississippi State was just one loss away from tying the second-longest drought of appearances in Omaha without a national championship in baseball or any other sport. But MSU was also just one win away from making that completely irrelevant, just one win away from immortality. Last night the Bulldogs dominated Vanderbilt from start to finish, en route to a 9-0 win, the largest shutout in the history of the Col...

WXXV News 25 July 1, 2021 Some of the biggest moments throughout the entirety of the College World Series came from a pair of former stars hailing from right here on the Gulf Coast. Starting with George County alum Logan Tanner, who hit the biggest home run of his life in the biggest game of his life last night and then East Central alum Brad Cumbest, who was the difference in MSU’s first win against Texas with a fourth inning RBI triple. Back in Pascagoula, Mississippi State commit Keilon Pa...

Mike Lopresti | NCAA.com | June 30, 2021 After a disappointing loss in Game 2, Vanderbilt will look to ace Kumar Rocker one last time Scotty Dubrule on Mississippi States offensive explosion against Vanderbilt in Game 2 of the CWS finals Share OMAHA, Neb. – You’re Vanderbilt, and Omaha has turned loud and ominous. So what now? You had the chance to clinch the College World Series, but Mississippi State’s offense broke loose like one of those afternoon Nebraska thunderstorms and the game t...

KLKN-TV Mississippi State wins College World Series for first ever national team title Mississippi State baseball beat Vanderbilt, 9-0, to win the 2021 College World Series for the schools first ever national championship in a team sport. June 30, 2021 9:25 pm Mississippi State infielder Kellum Clark (11), center, celebrates a three-run home run against Vanderbilt during the seventh inning in Game 3 of the NCAA College World Series baseball finals, Wednesday, June 30, 2021, in Omaha, Neb. (AP P...