T&L Extra: Baseball America's Jacob Rudner Talks College Baseball
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🗓️ 27 December 2025
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| 0:42.8 | Jacob Rudner, Baseball America joins us now. And before we dive into Mississippi State |
| 0:46.9 | and really even in the SEC, I want to talk about the story you broke yesterday with Penn State |
| 0:51.4 | baseball. If I mispronounce the name, you can correct me. |
| 0:54.8 | Jenae Sato, a Japanese prospect who you say is the best draft prospect in America for maybe |
| 1:02.8 | this is the 2027 draft. |
| 1:04.5 | Is this correct? |
| 1:06.2 | Yeah, 2027 draft. |
| 1:07.8 | Not sure if I would go as far as best prospect in America, but I certainly think that he's the best draft prospect to come over from Japan for the MLB draft. Rintaro Sasaki at Stanford did the same thing where he came over. He made himself eligible for the draft. And it didn't go so well in his first season with the Cardinal. And I think that that kind of put a bad taste in the people's mouth as far as this trend goes. Is this a viable path for players who are elite? And this guy, I think, really is. He is a top half of the first round type prospect with high caliber stuff for sure. So then it kind of begs the question, right? because the guy who goes to Stanford. Stanford is a constant player in college baseball, |
| 1:47.3 | a team that year and year out, |
| 1:48.4 | you know, they've won national titles and been to Omaha many times. |
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