Our 2022 baseball recruiting class had 3 taken in first 30 picks
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Florida Gators in the 2021 MLB Draft
RHP Andrew Painter* - 13th (1st) - Philadelphia Phillies
RHP Chase Petty* - 26th (1st) - Minnesota Twins
OF Jay Allen* - 30th (1st) - Cincinnati Reds
OF Jud Fabian - 40th (2nd) - Boston Red Sox
RHP Tommy Mace - 69th (2nd) - Cleveland Indians
SS Jake Fox* - 95th (3rd) - Cleveland Indians
C Nathan Hickey - 136th (5th) - Boston Red Sox
RHP Christian Scott - 142nd (5th) - New York Mets
OF Jacob Young - 203rd (7th) - Washington Nationals
RHP Jack Leftwich - 216th (7th) - Cleveland Indians
RHP Franco Aleman - 306th (10th) - Cleveland Indians
Florida Gators in the 2021 MLB Draft
RHP Andrew Painter* - 13th (1st) - Philadelphia Phillies
RHP Chase Petty* - 26th (1st) - Minnesota Twins
OF Jay Allen* - 30th (1st) - Cincinnati Reds
OF Jud Fabian - 40th (2nd) - Boston Red Sox
RHP Tommy Mace - 69th (2nd) - Cleveland Indians
SS Jake Fox* - 95th (3rd) - Cleveland Indians
C Nathan Hickey - 136th (5th) - Boston Red Sox
RHP Christian Scott - 142nd (5th) - New York Mets
OF Jacob Young - 203rd (7th) - Washington Nationals
RHP Jack Leftwich - 216th (7th) - Cleveland Indians
RHP Franco Aleman - 306th (10th) - Cleveland Indians
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The MLB draft is over, rounds 11-20 just completed. Looking through the list, I don't see any more Gators, current roster players nor high school signees, who were drafted today. That means only 4 of our high school signees got drafted, 3 in the 1st round, 1 in the 3rd round. That's awesome news, as we'll be getting a lot of kids who were projected to be drafted pretty high. I read yesterday that after removing Painter, Petty, Allen and Fox from the list of commits, we still had 12 signees ranked in the Top 500, with these 7 being the highest:
OF - Michael Robertson #91
P - Philip Abner #114
P - Pierce Coppola #118
P - Jac Cagliolone #132
P - Karl Hartman #161
C - Rene Lastres #186
P - Brandon Neely #206
OF - Michael Robertson #91
P - Philip Abner #114
P - Pierce Coppola #118
P - Jac Cagliolone #132
P - Karl Hartman #161
C - Rene Lastres #186
P - Brandon Neely #206
Well, I have to make a correction to my prior post. 4 more Gator signees were drafted today. They were not among the 7-8 highly-rated guys and I wasn't looking for their names when I scanned the list. There is no signing bonus money involved and who knows whether or not they will sign. But here are their names:
RHP Shawn Guilliams* - 330th (11th) - Cincinnati Reds
RHP Antonio Knowles* - 402nd (13th) - Los Angeles Dodgers
RHP Kyle Larsen* - 524th (18th) - Texas Rangers
OF Ty Evans* - 607th (20th) - Atlanta Braves
RHP Shawn Guilliams* - 330th (11th) - Cincinnati Reds
RHP Antonio Knowles* - 402nd (13th) - Los Angeles Dodgers
RHP Kyle Larsen* - 524th (18th) - Texas Rangers
OF Ty Evans* - 607th (20th) - Atlanta Braves
Two of the guys drafted today, Antonio Knowles & Shawn Guilliams, were JUCO transfers. I'd never heard of them until today.
GatorsTerritory - Antonio Knowles drafted in 13th round by Los Angeles Dodgers
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GatorsTerritory - Antonio Knowles drafted in 13th round by Los Angeles Dodgers
Shawn Guilliams
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Ocala,
Any chance some of the top recruits skip MLB and enroll in school?
Highly doubtful unless they come from extremely wealthy families. First round signing bonuses are 7 figures.
Have no idea, but I highly doubt it. But only 4 of our incoming freshman signees were drafted before the 18th round, 3 in the 1st round and 1 in the 3rd. It was projected that 10 of our incoming freshmen would be drafted in the 1st 8 round and 7 of the 10 didn't get drafted at all. So it appears we're going to end up with more high level recruits on campus than originally thought.
