Jacksonville University baseball saw two of its members selected in the 2022 Major League Baseball draft on Tuesday.
RHP Tyler Vogel was selected in the 12th round by the San Francisco Giants and RHP Mason Adams was taken in the 13th Round by the Chicago White Sox. They are the 91st and 92nd draft picks in program history.
Vogel cemented himself as a hammer out of the bullpen early in his first season at JU in 2022. After transferring in from Eastern Florida State, he made 24 appearances out of the pen, leading the team, and collected 10 saves, the seventh-most in a single season in JU history. It was the first double-digit save season for a Dolphin since 2018. He was tied for fifth on the team in strikeouts and third in opponent batting average. The Dunedin, Fla. product did not allow a run in his first nine appearances of the year and held opponents scoreless in 17 appearances overall.
Adams excelled in his second year in a Dolphin uniform, after transferring in from Florida Southwestern. He settled into the weekend rotation halfway through the 2021 season, and was critical down the stretch in helping JU gain momentum heading in to the ASUN Baseball Championship, before ultimately earning All-Tournament Team honors as the Dolphins won the tournament. He made two starts over the course of the event, earning the win in the decisive championship game, with 6.2 innings pitched and seven strikeouts against Liberty.
He advanced to the Friday night role in 2022, and was one of the top pitchers in the ASUN, and one of the best strikeout artists in the country. His 108 strikeouts were tied for fifth-most by a JU pitcher in program history and lead the conference. He was ASUN Pitcher of the Week on March 7 after he tied the program record with 13 strikeouts vs. Butler.
The Okeechobee, Fla. native racked up 167 strikeouts over 30 appearances, all but four of them starts in his two seasons at JU.
Vogel becomes the first player drafted by the Giants organization since John Vuz went in the 10th round in 1980. Adams is the first Dolphin player ever selected by the White Sox, though seven players from JU have been selected by the Cubs organization over the years, and just last season, RHP Tyler Santana signed a free agent contract with them.
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