MLB Draft: 2025 15th Round (No. 463 Overall) – New York Mets
2025 First-Year SEC Academic Honor Roll
No. 60 – 2025 Perfect Game Baseball Preseason Top 100 Juniors
2025 Season (at LSU)
• Appeared in 16 games (six starts), posting a 4-1 record and a 5.48 ERA in 21.1 innings with 18 walks and 23 strikeouts … limited opponents to a .171 batting average
• Allowed just four earned runs in his final 9.2 innings over nine appearances (March 29-May 15)
• Credited with win vs. Mississippi State (March 29), working 1.0 scoreless relief inning with no hits, two walks and one strikeout
• Earned relief wins on back-to-back days in Missouri series (March 15-16), working a combined 2.0 scoreless and hitless innings with no walks and three strikeouts … Ware became the first LSU pitcher since 1963 to earn wins on consecutive days vs. an SEC team; it was last accomplished by Wiley Dial vs. Mississippi State on April 29 and 30, 1963
• Brilliant outing in a start vs. Dallas Baptist (Feb. 26) in which he fired 4.0 perfect innings before allowing a home run to open the fifth … his final line was 4.0 innings, one hit, one run, no walks and six strikeouts
• Recorded a win and 3.0 shutout innings in his LSU debut vs. Southern (Feb. 18), allowing no hits with one walk and two strikeouts
2023 and 2024 Seasons (at Pearl River CC)
• Pitched two seasons at Pearl River Community College in Poplarville, Miss., (2023-24) before transferring to LSU for the 2025 season
• Posted two saves in seven appearances (two starts) in 2024 at PRCC, posting a 1.80 ERA and 21 strikeouts in 15.0 innings
• Worked 17.0 innings over six appearances (three starts) as a freshman at PRCC in 2023, posting a 3-0 mark with a 1.59 ERA and 28 strikeouts
Personal: Born August 25, 2003, in Madison, Miss. … played high school baseball at Germantown High in Madison, Miss. … parents are Nelson and Teresa, who both work as physical therapists … has one brother, Bryson, and one sister, Jessica … Bryson played college baseball at Auburn and is currently playing pro baseball in the Philadelphia Phillies organization … says “the winning culture and the next level development” influenced his decision to attend LSU … majoring in kinesiology at LSU.
Ware’s LSU Career Highs
Innings: 4.0 vs. Dallas Baptist (2/26/25)
Strikeouts: 6 vs. Dallas Baptist (2/26/25)
Hits Allowed: 3 twice; most recently vs. Alabama (4/19/25)
Runs: 5 vs. North Dakota State (3/4/25)
Earned Runs: 5 vs. North Dakota State (3/4/25)
Walks: 3 vs. North Dakota State (3/4/25)