Welcome to Episode 3 of SEC Baseball Weekly with Chris Lee, Alfred Ezman, and Graham Doty, an SEC baseball podcast that discusses the biggest storylines in the conference all year long. We’ll cover the biggest/trending topics, featuring fun and interesting guest interviews, season predictions, player and team SEC trivia, and a wide range of various unique segments.
Chris Lee, Alfred Ezman and Graham Doty recap the just-finished, 2024 MLB Draft and discuss what happened in the draft as well as ramifications for SEC teams. Topics include:
– The SEC is developing some 13 schools represented in the top 100 picks (Missouri, Ole Miss, and Oklahoma are not represented in that, but Oklahoma had John Spikerman in the top 150).
– Our thoughts on Charlie Condon’s future in Colorado.
– Was Jac Caglianone severely under-drafted to Kansas City at No. 6?
– NIL is a difference-maker. Top-250 talents who went undrafted include: SS Jalin Flores (Texas), outfielder Chris Stanfield (formerly of Auburn, now at LSU), shortstop Jonathan Vastine (Vanderbilt), 1B Jared Jones (LSU), catcher Luke Heyman and pitcher Pierce Coppola (Florida) and pitcher Eli Jerzembeck (South Carolina).
– Tennessee had six guys—Christian Moore, Billy Amick, Drew Beam, Chris Burke, Dylan Dreiling and Kavarez Tears taken in the top 150, with Aaron Combs and AJ Causey taken later.
– Draft surprises include: Alabama’s Ben Hess in the first round to the Yankees, Mississippi State’s Dakota Jordan’s fall to the Giants at pick 134, the number of Mississippi State pitchers who were drafted, including four in the top 10 rounds (something that would have been unthinkable a year ago) and more.
– Did Ole Miss’s run of bad luck continue in the draft, with two arms taken in the draft’s last half-dozen picks, including 2022 postseason star Hunter Elliott?
– Florida got Luke Heyman and Ty Evans through the draft, but will 20th-round pick Colby Shelton return to the Gators or sign with the Nationals?
– It’ll be interesting to see how a pair of talented, but oft-injured pitchers, in Tanner Witt (Texas) and Andrew Dutkanych (Vanderbilt) perform as both were drafted.
– Draft winners include Tennessee (many players selected, key recruits Tegan Kuhns, Jay Abernathy and Manny Marin got through the draft), LSU (key recruits William Schmidt and Derek Curiel pulled out of the draft, recruits Cade Arrambide, Mavrick Rizy and Michael Ryan went undrafted, plus, players Jared Jones, Chris Stanfield and Paxton Kling were not picked and will presumably return), Florida (the aforementioned players returning, plus, recruits Jackson Barberi and Joshua Whritenour got through the draft) and Vanderbilt (Vastine’s return, all recruits except Owen Hall got through the draft).
– Teams hit hard include Ole Miss and Mississippi State (especially on the pitching end) and Missouri, which saw its only two top-250-rated prospects in high-schoolers Tytus Cissell and Ethan Bagwell.
– Chris’s tot take: Dylan Dreiling will have the best career among all of Tennessee’s draftees.
0:00 Intro
1:54 Three Biggest Storylines
20:37 Three Biggest Surprises
34:20 Three Things Worth Noting
49:07 SEC Aftermath Winners & Losers
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2 Comments
Burke went 34, Dreiling went 65
Also, Lucas Ramirez was the 13th best recruit in Tennessee’s class. Inconsequential loss for the Vols