USF baseball LHP Shane McClanahan was selected with the 31st pick overall and first pick the compensatory round by the Tampa Bay Rays in the 2018 MLB Amateur Draft.
McClanahan, part of the vaunted 2015 recruiting class brought in by former head coach Mark Kingston, becomes the highest drafted Bull since Scott Hemond was taken 12th overall by the Oakland Athletics in 1986.
He joins former Bulls Brandon Lawson (2016) and Phoenix Sanders (2017) in the Rays system.
The redshirt sophomore missed the entire 2016 season due to Tommy John surgery, but returned in 2017 to strike out 104 batters in just 76 innings of work as the Saturday starter.