ASU Baseball: Tradition carries as eight Sun Devils go in 2023 MLB Draft

Arizona State has been a hotbed for Major League Baseball talent since the first amateur draft held in 1965. With the first overall selection, the Kansas City Athletics took an outfielder by the name of Rick Monday, an American Baseball Coaches Association All-American while leading the Sun Devils to their first College World Series Championship. Since then, the Sun Devils have produced 473 MLB draft picks, the single most by any school in history. In fact, an astonishing 50.3% of all-time ASU rostered players have been drafted.

With the 2023 draft ending on Tuesday, eight Arizona State players heard their name called in the draft, tied for the fourth most among Division-I programs this…