51 College Players Taken in First Two Rounds of MLB Draft (7/11)

Out of the first 75 players picked in the 2026 MLB Draft, 68% were college players.

There were 51 college players selected in the first two rounds. There were 25 college players taken out of 39 first-round picks (64%).

There were 36 schools represented, including 10 with multiple selections. Arkansas and Georgia Tech both had four players picked, while UCLA had three. There were two selections from Florida State, LSU, North Carolina, Ole Miss, TCU, Texas A&M and Virginia.

Rd.	Pick	Team	Player	School	Pos.
1	1	Chicago WS	Roch Cholowsky	UCLA	SS
1	3	Minnesota	Vahn Lackey	Georgia Tech	C
1	4	San Francisco	Jackson Flora	UCSB	RHP
1	5	Pittsburgh	Derek Curiel	LSU	OF
1	6	Kansas City	Zion Rose	Louisville	OF
1	8	Athletics	Drew Burress	Georgia Tech	OF
1	9	Atlanta	AJ Gracia	Virginia	OF
1	10	Colorado	Tyler Bell	Kentucky	SS
1	11	Washington	Chris Hacopian	Texas A&M	2B
1	15	Arizona	Ryder Helfrick	Arkansas	C
1	17	Houston	Logan Hughes	Texas Tech	OF
1	18	Cincinnati	Justin Lebron	Alabama	SS
1	19	Cleveland	Liam Peterson	Florida	RHP
1	20	Boston	Jake Schaffner	North Carolina	SS
1	22	Detroit	Cameron Flukey	Coastal Carolina	RHP
1	23	Chicago Cubs	Cade Townsend	Ole Miss	RHP
1	24	Seattle	Ace Reese	Mississippi State	RHP
1	26	Atlanta	Carter Beck	Indiana State	OF
1	27	NY Mets	Carson Wiggins	Arkansas	RHP
1	28	Houston	Jack Radel	Notre Dame	RHP
1	30	Kansas City	Taylor Rabe	Ole Miss	RHP
1	32	St. Louis	Tegan Kuhns	Tennessee	RHP
1	35	NY Yankees	Hunter Dietz	Arkansas	LHP
1	37	Colorado	Daniel Jackson	Georgia	C
2	38	Colorado	Logan Reddemann	UCLA	RHP
1	39	Toronto	Cole Carlon	Arizona State	LHP
2	42	Washington	Chase Brunson	TCU	OF
2	43	Minnesota	Carson Tinney	Texas	C
2	45	LA Angels	Jarren Advincula	Georgia Tech	2B
2	46	Baltimore	Ty Head	NC State	OF
2	47	Athletics	Mason Edwards	USC	LHP
2	49	Tampa Bay	Ben Blair	Liberty	RHP
2	51	Pittsburgh	Chris Rembert	Auburn	2B
2	52	Miami	Ethan Kleinschmit	Oregon State	LHP
2	53	Arizona	Carson Kerce	Georgia Tech	SS
2	57	Houston	Wes Mendes	Florida State	LHP
2	58	Cincinnati	Eric Becker	Virginia	SS
2	61	Detroit	Tyson LeBlanc	Kansas	SS
2	62	Chicago Cubs	Caden Sorrell	Texas A&M	OF
2	64	Philadelphia	Caden Bogenpohl	Missouri State	OF
2	65	Seattle	Jake Brown	LSU	OF
2	66	Milwaukee	Sawyer Strosnider	TCU	OF
2	67	Boston	Owen Hull	North Carolina	OF
2	68	St. Louis	Andrew Williamson	UCF	OF
2	69	Detroit	Evan Dempsey	FGCU	RHP
2	70	Cincinnati	Mulivai Levu	UCLA	1B
2	71	Miami	Ryan Peterson	Sam Houston	RHP
2	72	St. Louis	Dawson Montesa	West Virginia	RHP
2	73	Athletics	Gabe Gaeckle	Arkansas	RHP
2	74	Minnesota	Brett Renfrow	Virginia Tech	RHP
2	75	Chicago Cubs	Myles Bailey	Florida State	1B

51 College Players Taken in First Two Rounds of MLB Draft (7/11)

ByPhil Stanton

By Phil Stanton

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