FAYETTEVILLE — Perhaps more than any other single season, the Southeastern Conference is loaded with elite arms this year.
Georgia’s Emerson Hancock and Texas A&M’s Asa Lacy are considered top-five overall prospects in this year’s MLB Draft, and Georgia’s Cole Wilcox, South Carolina’s Carmen Mlodzinski, Tennessee’s Garrett Crochet and Auburn’s Tanner Burns are likely to be taken in the first round in June. Mississippi State's JT Ginn, who was ruled out for the season after undergoing elbow surgery, is also a projected first rounder.
According to Baseball America, SEC pitchers make up 13 of the top 100 draft prospects in this year’s draft alone.