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2019 MLB Draft Offseason Profile: Will Robertson, OF, Creighton

Height: 6’1”

Weight: 210 lbs.

Bats/throws: L/L

Age: 21.5 yrs.

Class: 4YR Jr.

Creighton hasn’t produced a ton of major-league talent as a program- save for all-time great Bob Gibson who attended on a basketball scholarship- with its most notable recent products including Ty Blach, Pat Venditte and Darin “Babe” Ruf. Junior outfielder Will Robertson appears poised to be the first product to be selected in the top five rounds since the aforementioned Blach, and could potentially become the highest Jay drafted since Alan Benes went in round one in 1993.

As a freshman in 2017, the previously unheralded Robertson announced his arrival by starting in all 49 games- the first Creighton freshman to do so since Ruf- and hitting .