John Savage didn’t think he was going to lose this one. Almost every year, the UCLA baseball coach loses one or two of his recruits to the Major League Baseball draft. Players drafted in the first few rounds command signing bonuses that make a college scholarship look like pennies. “We really anticipate a lot of […]
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Five Bruins selected in 2016 MLB draft
Five current UCLA baseball players were selected in the 2016 MLB Draft from June 9-11, with just one taken in the draft’s opening 11 rounds. The total was three fewer than 2015. Rising seniors Grant Dyer, Luke Persico and Kort Peterson and redshirt seniors Eric Filia and Christoph Bono heard their names called on the […]
Baseball seniors reflect on historic 2013 College World Series win
A group of UCLA baseball seniors sits in the locker room and thinks. The players look back to June 2013, and try to describe what it was like to win the first College World Series in school history. It takes them a few seconds, but one eventually speaks. “You try to explain it to people, […]
Walk-on catcher Daniel Rosica enters spotlight in 2016 season
The first catcher on the depth chart wasn’t going to be able to play. The second catcher on the depth chart quit. That left UCLA baseball with options three and four. Redshirt junior Darrell Miller Jr. – the team’s projected starting catcher – had his collegiate career cut short by a labrum tear just two […]
Injury, inexperience leads UCLA baseball to end season with subpar record
John Savage was optimistic. Leaning back in his chair and signaling toward the wall full of plaques and celebratory photos his program had garnered throughout his tenure at UCLA, the baseball coach expressed high hopes for the Bruins at the beginning of 2016. “If you’ve seen them work since the first day of September, there […]
NCAA chances disappear as UCLA ends season with OSU series loss
The Bruins couldn’t scratch a run across all weekend long and dropped their final three games of the season. UCLA baseball (25-31, 12-18 Pac-12) never got any offensive momentum going as Oregon State (35-19, 16-14) outscored the Bruins 10-0 over the course of the weekend set in Corvallis, Oregon. “We had some opportunities to score […]
UCLA baseball still has great catches despite foul season
At the beginning of the season, anyone who cared about Pac-12 baseball would have circled this series on their calendar. UCLA and Oregon State entered the year as the top two Pac-12 teams in four separate preseason polls – Collegiate Baseball, National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association, the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll and the Pac-12 Preseason […]