Baseball

Former KU pitcher Weiman makes MLB debut

More than nine years after he was selected in the MLB Draft by the Pittsburgh Pirates, former Kansas left-handed pitcher Blake Weiman made his big-league debut on Friday night. Weiman, now playing for the Los Angeles Angels, worked around a pair of singles to pitch a scoreless seventh inning ...

How latest eligibility bombshell could affect various KU sports

It certainly seems like quite a few college athletes are about to get more eligibility, whether they were actively looking for it or not. Amid a barrage of increasingly successful lawsuits by members of the high school class of 2022 who played four straight seasons in college, then graduated ...

An early guess at a prospective 2027 KU baseball lineup

Monitoring the offseason in college baseball is an entirely different sort of enterprise than keeping track of what’s going on in basketball and football. Even with the sport’s ongoing growth, player movement receives substantially less coverage. Prospects announced as signees in the fall ...

KU baseball to play fall exhibition at ‘Field of Dreams’ site

The Kansas baseball team will play a unique exhibition game this fall as part of its preparation for the 2027 season. KU and Iowa will face off in Dyersville, Iowa, near the site where the 1989 movie “Field of Dreams” was filmed. The matchup is set for Oct. 10 at 1 p.m., Iowa announced on ...

Picking potential breakout Jayhawks for the 2026-27 school year

It’s that quiet time of the year well after spring sports come to a close, one that Kansas Athletics forestalled a bit this time around with a lengthy postseason run for its baseball team and a few strong track and field performances, but one that inevitably arrives every summer. In reality, ...

Several KU players confirm plans to return; plus, more summer updates

The future of the Kansas baseball roster looks a lot clearer following the MLB Draft. With several prominent draft-eligible contributors from the 2026 season unselected over the weekend, KU now has the chance to retain its first-team all-conference closer Boede Rahe, as well as three ...

Ballinger picked by Detroit in 7th round; Nayral goes to Blue Jays

Kansas' Brady Ballinger and Mathis Nayral were selected in the MLB Draft on Sunday afternoon, bringing the Jayhawks' total number of selections for the year to four. "We're proud of all four guys who were drafted," head coach Dan Fitzgerald said in a press release. "We have a number of ...

LeBlanc, Voegele selected early in MLB Draft

Kansas shortstop Tyson LeBlanc and pitcher Dominic Voegele became the highest-drafted players in Dan Fitzgerald's tenure as head coach when they were selected in the early rounds of the 2026 MLB Draft on Saturday afternoon. LeBlanc went No. 61 overall to the Detroit Tigers, making him also the ...