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Lucky 13: Every LSU player selected in the 2022 MLB Draft, signing decisions tracker

The Tigers saw 13 players picked this week, seven of which were signees in the 2022 recruiting class.

The 2022 MLB draft has come and gone, and it was both a blessing and a curse for coach [autotag]Jay Johnson[/autotag] and his LSU Tigers squad.

On one hand, four of his players from last year were drafted ([autotag]Jacob Berry[/autotag], [autotag]Cade Doughty[/autotag], [autotag]Eric Reyzelman[/autotag] and [autotag]Paul Gervase[/autotag]), but on the other hand, a lot of his recruits were taken away.

Seven signees and two transfers from the 2022 recruiting class were picked up by MLB squads. Not all of them will sign with the clubs that drafted them, but most will. So, here is a rundown of every draft pick that played for or was committed to LSU this year.

Another member of LSU’s 2022 recruiting class flies off the draft board

Mikey Romero became the second LSU signee to be drafted in the first round on Sunday night.

[autotag]Mikey Romero[/autotag] became the latest member of LSU’s recruiting class to get drafted as he was picked with the 24th pick by the Boston Red Sox in the 2022 MLB draft. Romero joins [autotag]Justin Crawford[/autotag], another 2022 recruit who was taken in the first round.

The 6-foot-1, 175-pound shortstop/second baseman from Orange Lutheran in California was ranked as the No. 65 overall prospect in the MLB draft according to MLB.com, but he went off the board earlier than some expected.

He was rated as a five-star infielder in the 2022 recruiting class, and he was committed to play for coach [autotag]Jay Johnson[/autotag] at Arizona. When Johnson left the desert for LSU, Romero re-opened his recruitment and wound up following Johnson to the bayou.

Now, he is a first-round draft pick with a storied Red Sox franchise. He now has a choice to either sign with Boston or come to Baton Rouge. Regardless, he won’t immediately go to Boston as he will likely spend some years in the minor leagues before hopefully making his dreams come true and becoming a big leaguer.

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Top LSU baseball signee Justin Crawford drafted in 1st round by Philadelphia Phillies

The Tigers’ highest-rated commit in 2022 likely won’t be making it to campus.

One of the best signees of LSU’s No. 1 2022 recruiting class in center fielder [autotag]Justin Crawford[/autotag] — son of former MLB outfielder Carl Crawford — was selected with the No. 17 pick of the MLB draft on Sunday night by the Philadelphia Phillies.

He’s the second LSU player to come off the board after star third baseman Jacob Berry went to the Miami Marlins with the sixth overall picked.If he signs, Crawford would join an outfield in Philly with reigning MVP Bryce Harper.

Seven of LSU’s top-10 highest-rated draft prospects were part of the 2022 recruiting class, and Crawford was the first domino to fall.

He likely will not be the last, either, as LSU may have one or two more incoming freshmen picked tonight. Even though these kids get drafted, they still have the option to go to LSU and play for coach [autotag]Jay Johnson[/autotag] and the Tigers. But given the slotted values for first or second-round picks, it would be very hard to turn that down.

Though a surprise could be in the works when it comes time to negotiate his signing bonus, Crawford is now likely heading to the minor leagues to grind it out for a while before we hopefully see him in the majors one day.

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LSU baseball’s top-10 prospects in the 2022 MLB draft

Here’s your primer on the potential draft picks from LSU.

Sunday is the big day.

For a lot of baseball players across the country, their dreams are going to come true. All the hours of hard work and sacrifice will finally pay off when they hear their names called in the 2022 MLB draft as the first round kicks off at 6 p.m. CT with the second round following later in the night.

LSU finished with the No. 1 recruiting class in 2022, and that is a blessing and a curse. The blessing is that you have an incredible amount of talent coming to your team next season. The curse is that seven of the 10 LSU players on MLB Pipeline’s top 100 prospects list are prep prospects.

The players coming out of high school can choose to say no to the team that drafts them and come to LSU instead, but money talks. A lot of major league teams are willing to overpay for top prep talent.

Every draft pick in the first 10 rounds comes with an assigned value, with the total for a club’s selections equaling what it can spend in those rounds without incurring a penalty. If a player taken in the top 10 rounds doesn’t sign, his pick’s value gets subtracted from his team’s pool.

Clubs near the top of the draft often spend less than the assigned value for those choices and use the savings to offer more money to later selections. So, most teams will spend under value for guys that they are pretty sure will sign with them and use that money to pay more than the slot value to try and convince a prep player to sign instead of going to college.

For live MLB draft updates, stay tuned in to LSU Wire on Sunday. For now, here are the top 10 Tigers players and signees that should hear their names called this week.