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Ty Floyd officially signs with the Reds

Ty Floyd saved his best performance as an LSU Tiger for last, and it propelled him into the MLB draft’s first round.

[autotag]Ty Floyd[/autotag] saved his best performance as an LSU Tiger for last.

In the College World Series against Florida, Floyd pitched eight innings allowing only three runs on five hits as he struck out 17 and walked only one. He led the Tigers to a much-needed win in game one of the series.

That performance propelled Floyd’s name up MLB draft boards all the way into the supplemental part of the first round. The Cincinnati Reds picked Floyd as their second pick of the 2023 draft, drafting him right behind former Wake Forest pitcher, Rhett Lowder.

As you can see from the graphic below, that 17-strikeout game in the College World Series made Floyd some money as he signed with the Reds for just over $2 million.

Floyd went undefeated as a starter last year as he posted a 7-0 record with a 4.35 ERA as he struck out 120 hitters and only walked 37.

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12 Men’s College World Series standouts who could be picked in the first round of the 2023 MLB Draft

Dylan Crews and Paul Skenes aren’t the only big names from Omaha likely to be picked Sunday night.

The 2023 MLB Draft is nearly upon us, and it features one of the best groups of collegiate prospects in recent memory.

The group is headlined by Dylan Crews and Paul Skenes, who have been widely projected all year to be the first and second overall picks (in varying orders). The LSU stars led the Tigers to their seventh national championship last month.

They’re not the only draft prospects who showed out in Omaha. Others — such as Florida’s Wyatt Langford, who is becoming a late dark horse to be the first pick — are likely to hear their name’s called during the first round on Sunday night.

Here’s a rundown of some of the players who made a name for themselves in Omaha and could be selected in the first round of the draft.

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Tommy White walks it off in extras against Wake Forest to send LSU to the national championship

Tommy White hit a two-run shot to win the game and send the Tigers to the national championship series against Florida.

Many games are advertised as “Games of the Century.” It is very rare that those games ever live up to that hype.

This one did.

[autotag]Paul Skenes[/autotag] against Wake Forest’s [autotag]Rhett Lowder[/autotag], two of the best pitchers in the country, with each team’s season on the line.

This game was all about defense until the 11th inning when [autotag]Tommy White[/autotag] broke the shutout with a two-run walk-off homer to lift the Tigers past the Demon Deacons and into the national championship series against Florida.

The most exciting thing to happen during the first part of this game was Skenes breaking former Tiger, [autotag]Ben McDonald[/autotag]’s, single-season strikeout record in the SEC. It only took Skenes two innings to break it.

Lowder’s night was finished after he pitched seven innings and allowed zero runs on three hits, six strikeouts, and two walks. In the top of the eighth inning, Wake Forest had runners on the corner with only one out. They tried a safety squeeze where the hitter would try to bunt the runner in. [autotag]Tre Morgan[/autotag] said “not today.”

Skenes’ day was done after pitching eight innings and allowing zero runs on two hits, nine strikeouts, and a walk. [autotag]Thatcher Hurd[/autotag] came out of the bullpen to replace him. Neither team was able to score in the ninth inning so we headed to extras.

In the bottom of the eleventh inning, Crews singled to chase [autotag]Michael Massey[/autotag] from the mound. The Demon Deacons brought in [autotag]Camden Minacci[/autotag] to face White with the winning run on first base. On the first pitch to White, Minacci hung a breaking ball up in the zone…and the rest was history.

White hit a two-run shot to win the game for LSU and send the Tigers to the national championship series. LSU will get a rematch of the 2017 national championship with a shot at a different outcome.

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