Michigan right-hander Jeff Criswell has fulfilled a goal and followed his father’s footsteps into Major League Baseball.
Criswell was selected No. 58 in the second round by the Oakland A's on Thursday in the second and final day or the Major League Baseball Draft. The draft shrunk from 40 rounds to five this year as a cost-cutting measure resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. First-round selections were made Wednesday night.
He was the highest-rated Michigan player in the draft and the first selected in the draft. Michigan had five players taken in 2019, not long before the Wolverines finished runners-up to Vanderbilt in the College World Series.