BATON ROUGE, La. – Former LSU All-American pitcher Kade Anderson is scheduled to join the Seattle Mariners Major League roster and start on the mound at 6:15 p.m. CT Saturday versus the Chicago Cubs at T-Mobile Park in Seattle.
Anderson, a left-hander from Madisonville, La., will become the 94th Major Leaguer in the illustrious history of LSU Baseball, and he is the seventh MLB player produced by coach Jay Johnson during his five-year tenure at the helm of the Tigers program. LSU has had at least one former player make his MLB debut in of 32 of the past 36 seasons.
Johnson’s other LSU Major Leaguers are right-handed pitcher Paul Skenes of the Pittsburgh Pirates, outfielder Dylan Crews of the Washington Nationals, right-handed pitcher Grant Taylor of the Chicago White Sox, right-handed pitcher Paul Gervase of the Los Angeles Dodgers, left-handed pitcher Gage Jump of the Athletics and infielder Tommy White of the Athletics.
Anderson, who pitched at LSU in 2024 and 2025, is 10-1 this season with a 1.06 ERA in 18 starts for the Double-A Arkansas Travelers. Selected No. 3 overall by the Mariners in the 2025 draft, Anderson has struck out 135 and walked 13 in 93.1 innings, allowing just 47 hits and 11 runs in 18 starts.
Anderson, a First-Team All-American and First-Team All-SEC performer, was named the Most Outstanding Player of the 2025 College World Series after leading LSU to its eighth national championship. He was also named the Baseball America College Pitcher of the Year.
He was 2-0 in the CWS with victories over Arkansas and Coastal Carolina, posting a 0.56 ERA while allowing just one run on six hits in 16.0 innings with 17 strikeouts.
Anderson fired only the second complete-game shutout in LSU’s College World Series history when he defeated Coastal Carolina with a brilliant three-hitter in Game 1 of the CWS Finals.
He finished 12-1 on the season with a 3.18 ERA and 180 strikeouts in 119.0 innings. He completed the year No. 1 in the nation in total strikeouts and No. 7 in strikeouts per nine innings (13.61).
His total of 180 strikeouts in 2025 is No. 3 on the LSU single-season strikeouts list, trailing only Paul Skenes (209 strikeouts, 2023) and Ben McDonald (202 strikeouts, 1989).
For his entire two-season career at LSU, Anderson logged a 16-3 record and a 3.38 ERA in 157.1 innings with 55 walks and 239 strikeouts.
Anderson, who posted a 3.57 GPA as a sport administration major/business administration minor, was voted a 2025 Academic All-American by College Sports Communicators, and he received the 2025 Corbett Award, presented by the Allstate Sugar Bowl to the top male athlete in the state of Louisiana.