When the Los Angeles Dodgers selected left-handed pitcher Maddux Bruns with the 29th pick in the 2021 MLB Draft on Sunday, he became the first high school pitcher taken by the team since J.T. Ginn.
L.A. picked Ginn with the 30th overall selection in 2018 but he elected not to sign and went to Mississippi State. Ginn ended up being drafted in the second round by the New York Mets in 2020.
Bruns, who went to high school at UMS-Wright Preparatory School in Alabama, has also verbally committed to Mississippi State. However, Dodgers director of amateur scouting Billy Gasparino is confident they can keep the high school pitcher away from Mississippi State this time.