The 2026 MLB Draft in Philadelphia featured three BYU baseball players, outfielders Crew McChesney and Dimitri Williams Jr. and right-handed pitcher Garrison Sumner, getting selected to the big leagues.
This marked 127 BYU baseball players who have ever been drafted, dating back to 1965. It’s the most players taken in one draft since 2022, when there were four selected.
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For the second time of his collegiate career, Sumner got drafted. He was chosen in the 13th round with the 380th overall pick by the Baltimore Orioles and the first Cougar taken off the board. The 6-foot-3 righty was previously selected in the 20th round, 598th overall, in the 2025 draft by the Boston Red Sox, but he decided to return to BYU for his senior season.
Sumner was the punch out guy for the Cougars as he led the team in strikeouts in each of his two seasons in Provo. While totaling 145 strikeouts in 128 innings at BYU, the newly acquired Oriole prospect appeared in 29 games and started in 21 of them to a tune of a 7-6 record.
The Eagle Mountain, Utah native previously played at University of Utah in his freshman season and Salt Lake City Community College as a sophomore, where he earned a Division I JUCO Honorable Mention All-American.
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The speedy McChesney was taken by the Chicago White Sox with the 495th pick in the 17th round after three seasons at BYU. The outfielder has one more year of eligibility if he chooses to stay in college instead.
As a freshman, McChesney led the team in batting average (.340), on-base percentage (.478) and slugging percentage (.547) in 27 games played that season. The junior hit .307 on his way to tying for the most doubles (16) and triples (3) on the team this season. McChesney also led the squad in stolen bases (11) and was second in slugging percentage (.584).
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Williams Jr. got picked in the 20th round with the 584th pick by the Colorado Rockies before having played a single collegiate game.
The incoming freshman prepped at Bishop O’Dowd High School in Oakland, California and signed with the Cougars last November. He earned first team All-League in his high school’s conference, West Alameda County Conference (WACC), in 2025.
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