{"id":711789,"date":"2026-05-29T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/711789\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T10:00:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:00:23","slug":"ucla-baseball-filled-with-mlb-talent-insider-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/711789\/","title":{"rendered":"UCLA Baseball Filled With MLB Talent, Insider Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ESPN\u2019s Kiley McDaniel ranked the UCLA Bruins\u2019 baseball team as the squad in the 2026 NCAA Regionals with the most future draft picks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Bruins obviously have a leg up on other teams with projected No. 1 overall pick Roch Cholowsky, but have plenty of other talents in their ranks as well. McDaniel projects right-hander Logan Reddemann (2026) and <a href=\"https:\/\/lasportsreport.com\/ucla\/254717\/ucla-pitcher-brings-toy-dinosaur-to-the-mound\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">right-hander Angel Cervantes<\/a> (2028) will also go in the first two rounds of the MLB Draft when they go.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additionally, McDaniel lists Bruins Easton Hawk, Will Gasparino, Roman Martin, Mulivai Levu, Wylan Moss, Cal Randall and Zach Strickland as players who will fall somewhere between rounds 3 and 5 when they enter the draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCholowsky is the leading candidate to go No. 1 overall in the 2026 draft and is narrowly the top prospect in all of amateur baseball \u2014 ranking somewhere inside of the top 20 prospects in pro baseball once he signs \u2014 so he\u2019s doing some real heavy lifting here,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/48891480\/2026-mlb-draft-college-baseball-ncaa-regionals-teams-most-prospects-ucla-georgia-tech-florida\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">McDaniel wrote.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cReddemann could return during the postseason but has been out with arm fatigue; he should still go in the first round regardless of the outcome, with top-15 upside if fully healthy. Cervantes went unsigned as a second-rounder out of high school last year. There are a couple of players in the second group who could sneak into the back half of the second round (i.e. better than the average player you\u2019ll see listed in this tier) but fit mostly in the third to fifth rounds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img data-od-added-loading=\"\" data-od-removed-fetchpriority=\"high\" data-od-replaced- data-od-xpath=\"\/HTML\/BODY\/DIV[@class='elementor elementor-246463 elementor-location-single post-254751 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-ucla tag-baseball tag-ucla mv-content-wrapper']\/*[2][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[4][self::DIV]\/*[6][self::FIGURE]\/*[1][self::IMG]\" loading=\"lazy\" data-dominant-color=\"283040\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #283040;\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/USATSI_28377621-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Mar 1, 2026; Arlington, TX, USA; UCLA Bruins against Mississippi State Bulldogs during the Amegy Bank College Baseball Series at Globe Life Field. Mandatory Credit: Dustin Safranek-Imagn Images\" class=\"wp-image-254753 not-transparent\" \/>Mar 1, 2026; Arlington, TX, USA; UCLA Bruins against Mississippi State Bulldogs during the Amegy Bank College Baseball Series at Globe Life Field. Mandatory Credit: Dustin Safranek-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Bruins\u2019 plethora of talent has shown throughout their season, as they are the only team in the NCAA to record 50 or more wins on the season (51-6). They stormed their way through the Big Ten tournament and won their first ever tournament title in dramatic fashion against Oregon, and will turn their sights towards the NCAA Regionals, which begin Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UCLA will play in a four-team, double-elimination tournament in an attempt to qualify for the Super Regionals and\u2014eventually\u2014the College World Series. Their first game of the NCAA Regionals comes Friday at 12:00 p.m. PT against Saint Mary\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESPN\u2019s Kiley McDaniel ranked the UCLA Bruins\u2019 baseball team as the squad in the 2026 NCAA Regionals with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2276],"tags":[5,2291,4,1586,5164],"class_list":["post-711789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb-draft","tag-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball-draft","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-draft","tag-ucla"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116657286371308625","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711789","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=711789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}