#32 Kade Anderson Season 2025
MLB Draft: 2025 1st Round (No. 3 Overall) – Seattle Mariners
2025 First-Team All-American
2025 Baseball America National Pitcher of the Year
2025 College World Series Most Outstanding Player
2025 First-Team All-SEC
2025 Corbett Award Winner (Outstanding Male Athlete in Louisiana)
2025 ABCA First-Team All-South Region
2025 Frisco College Baseball Classic All-Tournament Team
2025 CSC Academic All-District
2025 SEC Academic Honor Roll
2024 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll
2025 Season
• Posted a 12-1 record with 3.18 ERA in 19 starts … fired 119.0 innings with 35 walks 180 strikeouts and a .211 opp. batting average
• Anderson completed the season No. 1 in the nation in strikeouts with 180; also No. 7 in the nation in strikeouts per nine innings (13.61)
• Anderson’s total of 180 Ks in 2025 is No. 3 on the LSU single-season strikeouts list, trailing only Paul Skenes (209 Ks, 2023) and Ben McDonald (202 Ks, 1989)
• Voted the Most Outstanding Player of the 2025 College World Series after leading LSU to its eighth national championship … he was 2-0 in the CWS with a 0.56 ERA and 17 strikeouts in 16.0 total innings, and he fired a complete-game shutout against Coastal Carolina in Game 1 of the CWS Finals, allowing just three hits with five walks and 10 strikeouts over 130 pitches
• Finished the season No. 1 in the SEC in strikeouts (180), No. 1 in the league in innings pitched (119.0), No. 1 in wins (12), No. 6 in ERA (3.18) and No. 7 in opponent batting average (.211)
• Named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll with a 3.67 GPA in sport administration
• Earned win in LSU’s CWS opener vs. Arkansas (June 14), allowing one run on three hits in 7.0 innings with two walks and seven strikeouts
• Defeated West Virginia in Game 1 of NCAA Super Regional (June 7), allowing six earned runs on nine hits in 7.0 innings with two walks and seven Ks
• Posted win over Dallas Baptist (May 31) in NCAA Baton Rouge Regional, firing 7.0 scoreless innings with four hits, two walks and 11 strikeouts
• Earned SEC Tournament win over Texas A&M (May 23), allowing three runs on four hits in 6.0 innings with one walk and 12 strikeouts
• Defeated South Carolina on May 16, limiting the Gamecocks to one run on four hits in 6.2 innings with three walks and nine strikeouts
• Worked 6.0 innings at Texas A&M (May 3), allowing just one run on three hits with three walks and 12 strikeouts
• Pitched effectively vs. Tennessee (April 25), limiting the Vols to two runs on six hits in 7.1 innings with three walks and 11 strikeouts
• Named SEC Co-Pitcher of the Week on April 7 after he fired a complete-game shutout on April 3 in LSU’s 2-0 win over No. 9 Oklahoma … Anderson, whose longest career outing prior to the outing was 6.1 innings, limited Oklahoma to five hits in 9.0 innings while recording two walks and a career-best 14 strikeouts … he retired 12 Oklahoma batters in a row to complete the outing … Anderson’s effort was the first complete-game shutout recorded by an LSU pitcher since April 24, 2018, when AJ Labas blanked Lamar in Baton Rouge … Anderson’s outing was the first nine-inning complete game recorded by an LSU pitcher since June 2, 2023, when Paul Skenes worked 9.0 innings and allowed two runs to defeat Tulane in the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional
• Posted a win over Texas (March 21), working 6.0 innings and limiting the Longhorns to two runs on seven hits with no walks and eight strikeouts … he threw a career-high 101 pitches in the outing, 71 for strikes … Anderson retired 10 of the final 13 batters that he faced
• Defeated Missouri (March 14) in his first career SEC start, pitching a career-long 6.1 innings with three runs, four hits, two walks and 11 strikeouts, matching his season high for Ks
• Logged win over North Alabama (March 7), working 6.0 innings with one run on four hits, no walks and 11 strikeouts
• Recorded 10 strikeouts in 5.1 innings vs. Kansas State (Feb. 28), allowing two runs on three hits
• Posted win over Omaha (Feb. 21), limiting the Mavericks to two runs on three hits in 5.1 innings with two walks and eight strikeouts
• Defeated Purdue Fort Wayne in 2025 season opener (Feb. 14), working 5.0 scoreless innings with four hits, one walk and eight strikeouts
2024 Season
• Recorded an outstanding freshman season for the Tigers, making 18 appearances (nine starts) and posting a 4-2 mark with a 3.99 ERA and 59 strikeouts in 38.1 innings
• He was especially effective in the postseason, working 2.1 scoreless innings over two NCAA Chapel Hill Regional appearances on the same day (June 2 vs. Wofford and North Carolina) with two hits, one walk and six strikeouts
• Made two appearances in SEC Tournament (May 25-26), working 1.2 scoreless innings with one hit, one walk and three strikeouts
• Defeated Nicholls (April 23), pitching the first 4.0 innings and allowing no runs on two hits with two walks and two strikeouts
• Posted a win over McNeese on April 9 as a starting pitcher, firing 3.0 scoreless innings with one hit, no walks and four strikeouts
• Fired a career-best 13 strikeouts in 5.0 innings at Southeastern Louisiana on March 6
Prior to LSU
• Ranked as the No. 2 overall player in Louisiana by Perfect Game for Class of 2023
• Ranked in 2023 as the No. 19 left-handed pitcher and the No. 130 overall player in the nation by Perfect Game
• Posted a 0.22 career ERA at St. Paul’s High School in Covington, La., logging a 28-1 W-L record and 212 strikeouts … also batted .418 in high school with 120 hits, including nine home runs
• A three-time All-State and four-time All-District selection at St. Paul’s HS, and he earned player of the year honors in St. Tammany Parish … an honor roll student who excelled in the classroom
Personal
Full name is Kade William Anderson … Dad, Eric Anderson, works in sales; Mom, Karena Anderson, works in human resources … has a younger sister, Cameron, and a younger brother, Carter … on choosing to attend LSU: “I was influenced to come to LSU because I am a true tiger fan. It was the only place I have ever wanted to go. To play at LSU was my dream ever since I was little”… born July 6, 2004 in Slidell, La.
Anderson’s LSU Career Highs
Innings: 9.0 twice – vs. Coastal Carolina (6/21/25 – College World Series Finals Game 1); at Oklahoma (4/3/25)
Strikeouts: 14 at Oklahoma (4/3/25)
Hits Allowed: 9 vs. West Virginia (6/7/25 – NCAA Baton Rouge Super Regional)
Runs: 7 vs. West Virginia (6/7/25 – NCAA Baton Rouge Super Regional)
Earned Runs: 6 vs. West Virginia (6/7/25 – NCAA Baton Rouge Super Regional)
Walks: 5 vs. Coastal Carolina (6/21/25 – College World Series Finals Game 1)