South Alabama's Travis Swaggerty is expected join a small, elite group on Monday night.
The Jaguars' All-Sun Belt Conference center fielder is projected as a first-round pick in the 2018 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft (6 p.m., MLB Network). If he goes in the first round, Swaggerty will be just the fifth South Alabama player to do so.
No Jaguar has gone in Round 1 of the MLB draft in 28 years, and just four men have ever done so. USA's previous first-round picks are catcher Glenn Borgmann (No. 9 overall, Minnesota Twins, 1971), first baseman/outfielder Alex Pastore (No.