The 2021 Major League Baseball season gets underway this Thursday, April 1 with a full season set to take place.
When the season opens up there will be a little more than a handful of former Notre Dame baseball players suiting up in big-league uniforms.
While former Golden Domers John Axford and Jeff Samardzija sit as free agents, there are five former Fighting Irish players on MLB rosters as we approach opening day and one former Irish player and World Series hero that is one of baseball’s 30 managers.
Here are the former Notre Dame players who will be in Major League Baseball uniforms on opening day 2021: