Breaking News🥊🥎🏈The 2024 MLB Oregon State University draft.

The 2024 MLB Oregon State University draft.
– The Cleveland Guardians selected Oregon State second baseman Travis Bazzana with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2024 MLB Draft.
– Bazzana is the first second baseman ever taken with the No. 1 pick and the first Australian-born player ever selected in the first round.
– He was ranked by Yahoo Sports’ Jordan Shusterman as the top player available in the 2024 draft class.
– Bazzana was named a First Team Freshman All-American by Collegiate Baseball, Perfect Game, and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA).
– He’s the first Beaver drafted in the first round since lefty Cooper Hjerpe in 2021 and the third top-five pick in program history, joining Adley Rutschman (No. 1, 2019) and Nick Madrigal (No. 4, 2018).
– Bazzana batted .407 (.568/.911) with 28 home runs and more than twice as many walks (78) as strikeouts (37) in 60 games this spring.
– The signing bonus slot value for the No. 1 overall pick is $10,570,600.