#16 Brady Neal Season 2025
MLB Draft: 17th Round in 2022 (Milwaukee Brewers)
2024 SEC Academic Honor Roll
2023 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll
2024 Season
• Played in 44 games (33 starts), batting .276 (32-for-116) with eight doubles, nine homers, 31 RBI and 25 runs … started 23 games at catcher, six games in right field and four games at DH
• Hit .273 (3-for-11) in the NCAA Chapel Hill Regional with three RBI
• Homered in three straight games – vs. Grambling State (April 30), vs. Texas A&M (May 5) and vs. Northwestern State (May 7)
• 2-for-4 with one double, one homer, three RBI and three runs vs. Grambling State (4/30/24)
• Homered in back-to-back games vs. New Orleans (April 16) and at Missouri (April 19)
• 2-for-4 with two homers, five RBI and three runs at Rice (Feb. 28)
• 3-for-3 with two doubles, a grand slam and six RBI vs. VMI (Feb. 18)
2023 Season
• Emerged as LSU’s starting catcher at the beginning of the season, but a back injury sidelined him from April 8 through the remainder of the year
• Played in 26 games (26 starts at catcher), batting .209 (14-for-67) with one double, one triple, three homers, nine RBI and 18 runs
• Launched a game-tying solo homer on March 31 in the fourth inning vs. Tennessee; dinger tied the game at 4-4 and LSU went on to a 6-4 win
• Blasted first career SEC home run in the bottom of the eighth inning on March 24 vs. Arkansas, tying the game 1-1
• Launched first career LSU home run on March 6 vs. Butler
• Named to the SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll as a sport administration major
High School
Selected in the 17th round of the 2022 MLB Draft by the Milwaukee Brewers … No. 1 ranked catcher in Florida for Class of 2022; played in Perfect Game All-American Classic … ranked nationally as the No. 2 catcher and the No. 29 overall prospect by Perfect Game … batted .359 in his senior season at IMG Academy with a .485 on-base percentage and a .577 slugging percentage … collected five home runs and 15 walks, and struck out just 14 times.
Personal
Born October 10, 2004, in Tallahassee, Fla. … parents are Corey and Cathy Neal … Dad is
executive director of the Florida Insurance Guaranty Association; Mom is an accounting assistant at Padgett Law Group … has two older brothers, Carson and Cameron … Carson plays baseball at Valdosta State, and Cameron is a student at LSU … Brady says “the fans and the tradition that the program has” influenced his decision to attend LSU” … majoring sport administration at LSU.
Neal’s LSU Career Highs
At-Bats: 5 three times; most recently vs. Xavier (3/10/24)
Hits: 3 three times; most recently vs. North Dakota State (3/12/24)
Runs Scored: 4 vs. Central Connecticut State (3/4/23)
Doubles: 2 vs. VMI (2/18/24)
Triples: 1 vs. Western Michigan (2/17/23)
Home Runs: 2 at Rice (2/28/24)
RBI: 6 vs. VMI (2/18/24)