Provo • Few professional baseball scouts were familiar with Jackson Cluff at this time last year because the Boise, Idaho, native was on a two-year church mission in Georgia.
Having returned on June 28, 2018, Cluff put together a brilliant sophomore season as BYU’s primary shortstop and made himself a Major League Baseball draft prospect, Cougars coach Mike Littlewood said recently.
Cluff, 22, expects to be selected between rounds five and 15 of the MLB draft, which begins Monday and runs through Wednesday. Rounds 1-2 are Monday, while rounds 3-10 are Tuesday and rounds 11-40 are Wednesday.