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The Florida Gators baseball program has been well-represented in Major League Baseball for decades. From 2006 World Series MVP David Eckstein to 2024 rookie Wyatt Langford, Florida Baseball maintains a strong pipeline to the MLB. https://twitter.com/GatorsBB/status/1678184477871177728 Gators on the Mets The New York Mets sport four former Gators on their …

The 2023 Major League Baseball Postseason is underway, and two former Gators will be taking the mound this year: Pitchers Dane Dunning for the Texas Rangers and AJ Puk for the Miami Marlins. Dunning and Puk will be on separate sides of the MLB playoff bracket, but these former Florida …

The Miami Marlins have been on a roll lately, winning six of their last seven outings. Marlins vs. Giants The Marlins are currently locked into a three-game series at home against the San Francisco Giants.  Miami has taken the first two games of the series, with one remaining to be …

Lots of Gators are on the Opening Day roster for the 2022 season. With Opening Day only two days away, the former Gators are eager to get back on the field. Although each of the players is on their own professional journey, each has had his own set of accomplishments. …

Kevin O’Sullivan and his Florida Gators are ready to redeem themselves following a massive disappointment in 2021. The Gators bowed out of the NCAA Tournament in embarrassing fashion, losing 19-1 to South Alabama in the Gainesville Regional. The letdown came after UF started the year ranked as the consensus number …

In 2015, Harrison Bader and A.J. Puk were teammates at the University of Florida. Both players now sport MLB uniforms. Bader was called back to the big-leagues on Tuesday after starting the 2019 season on the St. Louis Cardinals roster. The speedy center fielder was demoted to AAA after hitting …

The Florida Gator baseball team (52-14) is headed to the College World Series for the fifth time in nine seasons, following a 7-0 rout of Florida State (41-22) in the deciding game of the Gainesville Super Regional on Monday night. Dane Dunning earned the win for Florida, improving to 6-3 on …

On the opening night of the Major League Baseball Draft, five University of Florida juniors were selected in the first two rounds. In the first round left-handed pitcher AJ Puk was selected sixth overall to the Oakland Athletics. There were some who believed Puk might have been the overall number one …

The Florida Gators are looking to stay unbeaten against Florida State this season as NCAA Baseball Super Regional play approaches. This is the second year in a row that the Gators will face the Seminoles in the Super Regionals. The Gators swept the series last year, winning 13-5 in Game 1 …

The first winner’s bracket game of the 2016 NCAA Gainesville Regional saw the Florida Gator baseball team (49-13) earn a nail-biting 6-5 victory over the University of Connecticut Huskies (38-24) on Saturday. Florida junior Dane Dunning earned the win for Florida, improving to 5-3 on the season after giving up one …