While the baseball season ended just a few weeks ago, a piece of news over the weekend that came out should have a major impact on the 2017-18 edition of Wake Forest baseball. Rising senior Griffin Roberts has announced that he will indeed come back to complete his final year at Wake Forest.
Roberts was drafted in the 29th round by the Minnesota Twins, but would have likely been drafted much earlier if teams thought his heart was set on coming to the MLB.
While the overall win/loss numbers don’t look too pretty at 2-5, Roberts served as the closer for the Deacs, and put up a 2.