Four Former Tigers Have Opportunity to Participate in 2024 MLB Playoffs – LSU

BATON ROUGE, La. – 4 former LSU gamers have a possibility to take part within the 2024 Main League Baseball Playoffs that start on Tuesday.

The previous Tigers who’re on energetic MLB playoff rosters are third baseman Alex Bregman of the Houston Astros and right-handed pitcher Aaron Nola of the Philadelphia Phillies, whereas infielder DJ LeMahieu of the New York Yankees and catcher Hunter Feduccia of the Los Angeles Dodgers are on their groups’ 40-man rosters and could possibly be activated through the postseason.

A complete of 43 former Tigers have been part of MLB playoff groups since 1990, and 14 former LSU gamers have been members of World Sequence Championship groups in that span, together with Bregman, who claimed World Sequence rings with the Astros in 2017 and in 2022.

Bregman and the Astros will open a best-of-three American League Wild Card Sequence towards the Detroit Tigers at 1:30 p.m. CT Tuesday in Houston.

The Phillies, Yankees and Dodgers will start playoff motion on Saturday within the best-of-seven Divisional Sequence, after the Wild Card Sequence winners have been decided.

A doubleheader on Monday in Atlanta between the Atlanta Braves and New York Mets will conclude the common season and decide the ultimate two NL Wild Card groups. The NL West champion Dodgers would meet the Braves, Mets, or San Diego Padres in an NLDS starting on Saturday, whereas the Phillies – champions of the NL East – would open an NLDS matchup on Saturday with the Mets, Milwaukee Brewers or Arizona Diamondbacks.

The AL East champion Yankees will face both the Kansas Metropolis Royals or Baltimore Orioles in an ALDS beginning on Saturday.

Nola and Feduccia are Louisiana natives, hailing from Baton Rouge and Lake Charles, respectively. LeMahieu is a local of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., and Bregman is a product of Albuquerque, N.M.

Bregman, together with being a two-time World Sequence champion and four-time AL pennant winner, is a two-time All-Star and the 2018 All-Star Sport MVP. He batted .260 through the 2024 common season for Houston with 30 doubles, two triples, 26 homers, 75 RBI and 79 runs scored.

Bregman is in his ninth season with the Astros, who chosen him because the No. 2 general choose within the 2015 MLB Draft.

Nola, a 2018 NL All-Star, helped lead Philadelphia to the Nationwide League pennant in 2022, and this season he has recorded a 14-8 mark and a 3.57 ERA in 199.1 innings with 197 strikeouts.

In 2022, he registered essentially the most strikeouts (235) with fewer than 30 walks (29) in Main League Baseball Historical past. Nola, the Phillies’ first-round draft selection in 2014, is in his tenth MLB season in Philadelphia.

LeMahieu, who’s in his 14th Main League season and sixth with the Yankees, batted .204 within the 2024 common season with 5 doubles, two homers, 26 RBI and 19 runs scored. A 3-time All-Star, a four-time Gold Glove Award recipient and a two-time winner of the Silver Slugger Award, LeMahieu captured the MLB and American League batting titles in 2020.

LeMahieu turned the primary participant in fashionable Main League historical past to win a batting title in every league, as he additionally claimed the 2016 MLB and Nationwide League batting titles whereas taking part in for the Colorado Rockies. He was the second-round collection of the Chicago Cubs within the 2009 MLB Draft.

Feduccia, the Dodgers’ Twelfth-round draft selection in 2018, made his MLB debut in July and appeared in 5 video games through the common season. He had 4 hits in 12 at-bats with one RBI and two runs.

Feduccia hit .295 this season at Triple-A Oklahoma Metropolis with a .420 on-base proportion and .451 slugging proportion in 64 video games.