ATLANTA \u2013\u00a0Day two of the 2025 Major League Baseball Draft saw eight more Rebels hear their name called, bringing the total to nine over the two-day event. Nine draftees is the highest total for Ole Miss since 2014.<\/p>\n
Luke Hill was drafted in the fourth round as the 132nd overall pick by the Cleveland Guardians. He is the highest drafted Rebel position player since Calvin Harris was selected by the Chicago White Sox in the fourth round in 2023.<\/p>\n
Will McCausland was selected in the seventh round as the 222nd overall pick by the Cleveland Guardians. Riley Maddox was picked in the eighth round as the 231st overall pick by the Washington Nationals. Mason Nichols was picked by the Tampa Bay Rays in the ninth round as the 267th overall pick.<\/p>\n
Connor Spencer was taken in the 12th round by the Chicago Cubs as the 361st overall pick. Patrick Galle was selected in the 17th round as the 508th overall pick by the Boston Red Sox. Brayden Jones was taken in the 18th round as the 537th overall pick by the Tampa Bay Rays. Sam Tookoian was picked in the 20th round as the 589th overall pick by the Los Angeles Angels.<\/p>\n
Hill started in 63 games for the Rebels in 2025, starting in all of them primarily at third base. He led the team in batting average (.336), on base percentage (.459), runs scored (66), hits (82), walks (46), and stolen bases (18). He put together the sixth-longest on base streak in program history, reaching base in 42 straight games from March 11 to May 25. He reached base in all but three games he played all season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA \u2013\u00a0Day two of the 2025 Major League Baseball Draft saw eight more Rebels hear their name called,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-11632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}