Draft, degree or both: What Pepperdine baseball players are striving toward

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Most students dream of graduation day. Pepperdine baseball players dream of the draft.

If draft comes first for the player, they have a tough decision to make.

Pepperdine is no stranger to the annual Major League Baseball (MLB) draft. They took a total of 161 Waves in the team’s history, including 10 players the past three seasons.

This season, major league teams are looking at five Pepperdine baseball players. And while there is little to no offseason for players trying to make a roster, the players, Head Coach Rick Hirtensteiner and Sport Administration Professor John Watson agreed on the importance of coming back to finish their degree during or after…