#23 Gage Jump Season 2025
2024 MLB Draft: Competitive Balance Round B (after 2nd Round), 73rd Overall – Oakland Athletics
2024 Second-Team ABCA All-South Region
SEC Pitcher of the Week (April 22, 2024)
2024 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll
2024 Astros College Classic All-Tournament Team
2021 MLB Draft: 18th Round (San Diego)
At LSU (2024)
• Recorded a 6-2 mark and a 3.47 ERA in 83.0 innings (17 appearances, 15 starts) with 22 walks and 101 strikeouts while limiting opponents to a .218 batting average
• Finished No. 8 in the SEC in ERA and No. 8 in opponent batting average
• Recorded a quality start vs. Wofford (May 31) in the NCAA Chapel Hill Regional, allowing three runs on six hits in 7.1 innings with no walks and nine strikeouts
• Defeated Georgia in the SEC Tournament (May 21), working 7.0 innings and allowing one run on four hits with one walk and seven strikeouts
• Defeated Ole Miss (May 16), allowing one run on five hits in 6.0 innings with two walks and eight strikeouts
• Posted wins in consecutive starts vs. Missouri (April 19) and Auburn (April 26), working a combined 14 innings and allowing only one run on five hits with one walk and 20 Ks
• Defeated Auburn (April 26) by firing 7.0 scoreless innings with two hits, no walks and six strikeouts
• Voted SEC Pitcher of the Week on April 22 after a brilliant outing on April 19 at Missouri … he fired a seven-inning complete game win and limited Mizzou to one run on three hits with one walk and a career-high 14 strikeouts … he threw 98 pitches in the outing, 65 for strikes … he retired 12 of the final 13 batters he faced, including 10 by strikeout … his 14 strikeouts marked the most by an LSU pitcher since Ty Floyd recorded 17 strikeouts versus Florida last June in the College World Series … Jump’s seven-inning complete game was the first by an LSU pitcher since Paul Skenes posted a seven-inning complete-game win over Mississippi State on May 13, 2023
• Pitched effectively in a start vs. Florida (March 23), working 5.2 innings and limiting UF to two runs on two hits with four walks and eight Ks
• Posted win over Xavier (March 9), recording a career-best 10 strikeouts in five scoreless innings, limiting XU to three hits with one walk
• Defeated UL Lafayette (March 2) in the Astros Foundation College Classic, limiting the Cajuns to just one hit in five shutout innings with no walks and five strikeouts … he threw 76 pitches, 59 for strikes in the outing … named to the Astros Foundation College Classic All-Tournament team
• Made LSU debut on Feb. 16 vs. VMI and earned a save by pitching a perfect ninth inning with two strikeouts
At UCLA (2022-23)
• Transferred to LSU after two seasons (2022-23) at UCLA … selected in the 18th round of the 2021 MLB First-Year Player Draft by the San Diego Padres, but opted to enroll at UCLA … ranked as the No. 43 overall prospect in the lead-up to the 2021 Draft by MLB.com
• Did not pitch in 2023 due to injury … made seven appearances as a true freshman in 2022, including three starts … finished the 2022 season with a 1-1 record, two saves, 3.86 ERA, .172 opponent batting average and 22 strikeouts over 16.1 innings … did not pitch after April 24, 2022, due to injury
• Named to the UCLA Director’s Honor Roll for the fall, winter, and spring quarters of 2022 (3.0+ GPA, 12+ quarter units passed)
High School
Played baseball at JSerra Catholic High School in San Juan Capistrano, Calif. … was ranked the No. 1 left-handed pitcher in the state of California and the No. 5 prospect overall … nationally, was ranked as the No. 5 left-handed pitcher and the No. 38 prospect overall … two-time Preseason Underclass All-American … named to the All-Tournament Team at three separate WWBA events during the summer of 2020 … named to the Top Prospect Team at the 2020 Perfect Game National Showcase … participated in the Baseball Factory All-Star Classic in October … participant in the 2020 Area Code Games.
Jump’s LSU Career Highs
Innings: 7.1 vs. Wofford (5/31/24 – NCAA Chapel Hill Regional)
Strikeouts: 14 at Missouri (4/19/24)
Hits Allowed: 7 twice; most recently at Alabama (5/10/24)
Runs: 5 twice; most recently at Tennessee (4/12/24)
Earned Runs: 5 at Tennessee (4/12/24)
Walks: 4 twice; most recently at Tennessee (4/12/24)