Junior lefthander Isaiah Coupet became the first Buckeye selected in the 2023 MLB baseball draft, taken by the Colorado Rockies Monday in the fourth round.

The major league draft occurs tonight on ESPN...with two principal Buckeyes expecting (hoping) to hear their name called between now and Monday.  The question is...how soon (how high), or have they done enough to be called, at all?

It surprised me that it took this long, but the Arizona Diamondbacks promoted former Buckeye Dominic Canzone to the big club on Friday - the best hitter I've personally seen to wear a Buckeye uniform.

Six weeks removed from the end of the college season, All-Big Ten freshmen Henry Kaczmar (above) and Matt Graveline are in New England working on how to get better, and in time to come back to campus in September...to lead new faces on the roster towards making the 2024 Buckeyes better - much, much better.