Prime MLB Prospect Kade Anderson Flattered By Paul Skenes, Joe Burrow Comparisons
Prime MLB Prospect Kade Anderson
Loving Burrow, Skenes Comps
… They’re Legends!!!
Revealed
TMZSports.com
LSU pitcher Kade Anderson is loving the comparisons he is been attending to former Tigers stars Paul Skenes and Joe Burrow … telling TMZ Sports activities he considers the 2 to be “legends.”
The 20-year-old simply wrapped up his sophomore season in Baton Rouge with a nationwide championship … and now, many anticipate him to be the highest decide in subsequent month’s MLB draft.
With these predictions, he is unsurprisingly garnered comps to Skenes and Burrow — two LSU alums who went No. 1 general of their respective drafts — and he advised us on Wednesday he was tremendous flattered to be even talked about alongside these greats.
“To be in that very same dialog,” he stated whereas working a ceremonial shift at a Elevating Cane’s in Louisiana, “is admittedly cool. I imply, I grew up watching them play. It is actually thrilling.”
Anderson’s coach, Jay Johnson, was one of many first to rope Anderson into the identical realm as Burrow and Skenes … calling him “the most effective participant within the nation” earlier this month.
NCAA Championships
It will not be lengthy ’til he will get an opportunity to show he is pretty much as good as these LSU stars within the professionals … the MLB draft goes down on July 13, and it needs to be a matter of mere minutes earlier than Anderson’s identify known as.