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Craig Yoho, expected to ace Arkansas’ bullpen, taken by Milwaukee

Commitments to the Arkansas baseball team are flying off the draft shelves.

Craig Yoho will probably never make it to Baum-Walker Stadium.

Yoho played last year with Indiana, but committed to transfer to Arkansas to play the 2023 season. Before school could even begin the semester, though, Yoho was taken in the eighth round of the MLB Draft on Monday by the Milwaukee Brewers.

Yoho had two Tommy John surgeries early in his college career, but rallied for a 3.41 earned-run average with 63 strikeouts in 37 innings out of the Hoosiers’ bullpen. Those marks earned him Freshman All-America honors from Collegiate Baseball despite Yoho actually being a fifth-year senior.

The slot value for the pick is just above $196,000, so it’s likely Yoho will sign instead of play another season of college ball, especially as injuries in his past may encourage him to strike while the iron is hot, so to speak.

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Arkansas lands relief help in sixth transfer portal pick-up of the offseason

Craig Yoho was solid last year for Indiana. It was his first college baseball season since 2020.

Dave Van Horn added his sixth player from the transfer portal this week as former Indiana pitcher Craig Yoho committed to Arkansas.

A 6-foot-3 right-hander, Yoho had a 3.41 earned-run average in 37 innings while striking out 63 and walking 19 last year for the Hoosiers. Opponents hit .232 against him.

Yoho missed the two previous years because Tommy John surgery and then a new injury. Before those hit, he was an outfielder at Houston. He didn’t collect enough at-bats of significance there before transferring to his home state’s flagship school. Last year was Yoho’s first season since 2020, when he appeared in just one game.

Yoho will join fellow pitcher Stone Hewlett along with outfielders Jack Wagner and Ty Wilsmeyer, shortstop Wehiwa Aloy and catcher Hudson White from the portal. It’s the top-ranked transfer class in the country.

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