{"id":132177,"date":"2025-06-26T10:25:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T10:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/132177\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T10:25:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T10:25:20","slug":"top-mlb-prospect-kade-anderson-flattered-by-paul-skenes-joe-burrow-comparisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/132177\/","title":{"rendered":"Top MLB Prospect Kade Anderson Flattered By Paul Skenes, Joe Burrow Comparisons"},"content":{"rendered":"

Top MLB Prospect Kade Anderson
\n Loving Burrow, Skenes Comps
\n … They’re Legends!!!<\/p>\n

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LSU pitcher Kade Anderson is loving the comparisons he’s been getting to former Tigers stars Paul Skenes and Joe Burrow<\/a> … telling TMZ Sports he considers the two to be “legends.”<\/p>\n

The 20-year-old just wrapped up his sophomore season in Baton Rouge with a national championship … and now, many expect him to be the top pick in next month’s MLB draft.<\/p>\n

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With those predictions, he’s unsurprisingly garnered comps to Skenes and Burrow — two LSU alums who went No. 1 overall in their respective drafts — and he told us on Wednesday he was super flattered to be even mentioned alongside those greats.<\/p>\n

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“To be in that same conversation,” he said while working a ceremonial shift at a Raising Cane’s in Louisiana, “is really cool. I mean, I grew up watching them play. It’s really exciting.”<\/p>\n

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Anderson’s coach, Jay Johnson, was one of the first to rope Anderson into the same realm as Burrow and Skenes … calling him “the best player in the country” earlier this month.<\/p>\n

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It won’t be long ’til he gets a chance to prove he’s as good as those LSU stars in the pros … the MLB draft goes down on July 13, and it should be a matter of mere minutes before Anderson’s name is called.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top MLB Prospect Kade Anderson Loving Burrow, Skenes Comps … They’re Legends!!! Published June 26, 2025 12:50 AM…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,4,169,185,317,1564],"class_list":{"0":"post-132177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-sports-news","13":"tag-tmz-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114749186405808476","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}