The return of Kansas baseball is about eight months away after the Jayhawks’ memorable season ended early in the NCAA Tournament, but fans might be able to get something vaguely resembling it in St. Cloud, Minnesota, this summer. Four members of next year’s KU team — returning star first ...
Outgoing Kansas senior Brady Counsell on Wednesday afternoon became the first Jayhawk ever to receive a Gold Glove award from the American Baseball Coaches Association and Rawlings Sporting Goods. The honor, which in Counsell’s case recognizes his defensive play at third base, is only given ...
Updated 11:40 a.m. Sunday, June 15, 2025: Kansas baseball coach Dan Fitzgerald’s new contract, announced by KU last week and obtained by the Journal-World via a Kansas Open Records Act request, provides Fitzgerald a salary increase and extends his employment through the end of the 2031 ...
Gavyn Schlotterback only received limited reps at first base as a freshman for Paris Junior College last fall; by the spring, the Dragons were starting him at that position. Then, when Paris’ catcher broke his nose, Schlotterback was suddenly catching in every doubleheader and even pitching ...
After Kansas baseball’s record-breaking 2025 season, KU’s Brady Ballinger and Jackson Hauge were both named All-Americans this week by different publications. Ballinger was named a third-team All-American by Perfect Game on Tuesday and a second-team All-American by the National Collegiate ...
Reigning Big 12 Coach of the Year Dan Fitzgerald signed an amended six-year contract on Tuesday after leading Kansas baseball to its best season in over a decade. After getting the Jayhawks into the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2014, he received an automatic one-year contract ...
Just as Kansas fans familiarized themselves with a whole new group of Jayhawks at the start of the 2025 season — which proved to be a rewarding pursuit, given how successful the fresh group of recruits ultimately was — they will have to do the same ahead of 2026. The extent to which this ...
Updated 2:28 p.m. Monday, June 2: Kansas coach Dan Fitzgerald’s first two seasons at the helm suggested incremental progress each year, but in 2025 the Jayhawks took a significant leap forward. Relying on a team essentially built from scratch after the 2024 MLB Draft derailed some of KU’s ...
