#40 Fidel Ulloa Season 2025
2024 MLB Draft: 7th Round, 198th Overall – Kansas City Royals
2024 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll
2024 Season
• Appeared in 19 games as a reliever for LSU, posting a 2-2 mark and a 4.63 ERA in 23.1 innings with 11 walks and 26 strikeouts
• Earned relief win vs. South Carolina in SEC Tournament (May 23), recording 1.2 shutout innings with one hit, two walks and two strikeouts
• Worked LSU career-long 2.2 innings vs. Ole Miss (May 18), allowing one run on two hits with no walks and one strikeout
• Pitched 2.0 scoreless relief innings at Alabama (May 12), allowing one hit with one walk and one strikeout
• Earned first career LSU win on May 3 vs. Texas A&M, working 1.1 scoreless relief innings with one hit, no walks and one strikeout
• Struck out all three batters he faced in 1.0 inning of work vs. Grambling State (April 30)
• Earned save vs. New Orleans (April 16), working 1.0 scoreless inning with no hits, no walks and one strikeout
• Picked up first career LSU save on Feb. 19 vs. Central Arkansas, working a scoreless ninth inning on just eight pitches to preserve a 4-3 win
Prior to LSU
• Transferred to LSU after two seasons (2022-23) at San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, Calif.
• Appeared in 14 games (10 starts) in 2023, posting a 5-1 record and 4.09 ERA in 55.0 innings with 75 strikeouts and a 1.29 WHIP
Personal
Full name is Fidel Brandon Ulloa Jr. … parents are Fidel Ulloa Sr., who is a painter, and Norma Ceja, who is a winery supervisor … has two younger brothers, Juan and Nicholas … says he chose to attend LSU because it “has the best college sports atmosphere and best coaching staff in the nation” … born January 3, 2003, in Lodi, Calif.
Ulloa’s LSU Career Highs
Innings: 2.2 vs. Ole Miss (5/18/24)
Strikeouts: 3 three times; most recently vs. Grambling State (4/30/24)
Hits Allowed: 3 vs. Northwestern State (5/7/24)
Runs: 3 vs. Tennessee (5/26/24 – SEC Tournament)
Earned Runs: 3 vs. Tennessee (5/26/24 – SEC Tournament)
Walks: 2 four times; most recently vs. North Carolina (6/2/24 – NCAA Regional)