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How will the MLB draft impact the 2018 Coastal Carolina baseball team?

The Coastal Carolina baseball team is not losing a single position player to graduation this year, as the team’s only seniors were three pitchers.

But Major League Baseball came a calling this week, and the prospective 2018 roster took a hit.

The Chants are likely to lose speedy outfielder Billy Cooke, who is the reigning Sun Belt Conference Player of the Year, shortstop Jordan Gore of Conway and second baseman Wood Myers, as all three rising seniors were drafted by MLB teams.

The trio had the three best batting averages on the team in 2017, ranging from .