BATON ROUGE, La. \u2013 Former LSU baseball All-American Paul Skenes of the Pittsburgh Pirates has been named to the National League roster for the 2026 MLB All-Star Game.<\/p>\n
Skenes, an MLB All-Star for the third straight season, has been the starting pitcher for the National League in each of the past two Midsummer Classics.<\/p>\n
Fourteen former LSU players, beginning with second baseman Connie Ryan in 1944, have been chosen for the All-Star Game on 29 occasions. LSU has had a former player selected for the All-Star Game 13 times since 2015.<\/p>\n
The 2026 MLB All-Star Game will be held at 7 p.m. CT on Tuesday, July 14, at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, and the game will be televised by FOX.<\/p>\n
Skenes, the 2024 NL Rookie of the Year and 2025 NL Cy Young Award winner, has been outstanding again this season for the Pirates, recording a 3.62 ERA in 97.0 innings with 119 strikeouts and only 22 walks. He has a 2.35 career ERA in three MLB seasons with 505 strikeouts in 417.2 innings.<\/p>\n
Skenes, a right-hander from Lake Forest, Calif., was the No. 1 overall selection by Pittsburgh in the 2023 MLB Draft. He led LSU to the 2023 College World Series title and was presented with the Dick Howser Trophy as the best player in NCAA Division I.<\/p>\n
Also the 2023 D1 Baseball National Player of the Year and the Southeastern Conference Pitcher of the Year, Skenes compiled a 13-2 record and a 1.69 ERA in 122.2 innings with 20 walks and an SEC-record 209 strikeouts. He finished No. 1 in the nation in strikeouts (209), strikeouts per nine innings (15.33) and WHIP (0.75).<\/p>\n
He finished No. 2 in the nation in ERA (1.69), No. 3 in strikeout-to-walk ratio (10.45), and No. 5 in hits allowed per nine innings (5.28). He was voted the Most Outstanding Player of the 2023 College World Series, as he was 1-0 in two starts with a 1.15 ERA in 15.2 innings, allowing two runs on seven hits with two walks and 21 strikeouts.<\/p>\n
Below is a complete listing of LSU\u2019s MLB All-Stars:<\/p>\n
LSU\u2019s Major League All-Stars
\u2022 Connie Ryan, 2B, Boston Braves (NL) \u2013 1944
\u2022 Alvin Dark, SS, New York Giants (NL) \u2013 1951, 1952, 1954
\u2022 Joe Bill Adcock, 1B, Milwaukee Braves (NL) \u2013 1960
\u2022 Albert Belle, OF, Cleveland Indians (AL) \u2013 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996; Chicago White Sox (AL) \u2013 1997
\u2022 Paul Byrd, RHP, Philadelphia Phillies (NL) \u2013 1999
\u2022 Brian Wilson, RHP, San Francisco Giants (NL) \u2013 2008, 2010, 2011
\u2022 Brad Hawpe, OF, Colorado Rockies (NL) \u2013 2009
\u2022 Aaron Hill, 2B, Toronto Blue Jays (AL) \u2013 2009
\u2022 DJ LeMahieu, 2B, Colorado Rockies (NL)- 2015, 2017; New York Yankees (AL) \u2013 2019
\u2022 Will Harris, RHP, Houston Astros (AL) \u2013 2016
\u2022 Aaron Nola, RHP, Philadelphia Phillies (NL) \u2013 2018
\u2022 Alex Bregman, 3B, Houston Astros (AL) \u2013 2018, 2019; Boston Red Sox (AL) \u2013 2025
\u2022 Kevin Gausman, RHP, San Francisco Giants (NL) \u2013 2021; Toronto Blue Jays (AL) \u2013 2023
\u2022 Paul Skenes, RHP, Pittsburgh Pirates (NL) \u2013 2024, 2025, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BATON ROUGE, La. \u2013 Former LSU baseball All-American Paul Skenes of the Pittsburgh Pirates has been named to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,4034,30569,30570,1347,13339,13342,8438,1222,591,85],"class_list":["post-781220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-baseball","tag-geaux-tigers","tag-homepage-feature-headline","tag-latest-news","tag-louisiana","tag-louisiana-state-university","tag-lsu","tag-lsu-tigers","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}