2026 Freshman All-SEC
2026 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll
2026 Season
• Played in 53 games as a true freshman (37 starts), batting .314 (44-for-140) with five doubles, one triple, three homers, 21 RBI and 30 runs scored ... started 17 games at first base, 10 at DH, six in right field and four in left field
• Finished No. 5 in the SEC in on-base percentage (.475)
• LSU’s leading hitter in SEC regular-season games, batting .355 (27-for-76) with three doubles, one triple, two homers, 11 RBI, 16 runs and a .490 on-base percentage
• Batted .538 (7-for-13) in Mississippi State series (April 24-26) with one triple, two RBI and four runs
• LSU’s leading hitter in Ole Miss series (April 10-12), batting .455 (5-for-11) with one double and one run scored
• Helped lead LSU to a series victory over Kentucky (March 27-29), batting .429 (3-for-7) in three games with one double, one homer, four RBI, one run, two walks and a .556 on-base pct. … blasted a three-run HR and an RBI double in Game 2 win over Kentucky
• Entered the season rated No. 20 among the 2026 Perfect Game Top 100 College Freshmen
High School
Named by Perfect Game as the nation’s No. 1 high school first baseman and the No. 64 best overall high school player in the nation … Voted 2025 Class 4A First-Team All-State at Penn High, which is located in Granger, Ind. … participated in the 2025 MLB Draft Combine and launched the longest home run – a 430-foot shot – and tied for the most 400-foot blasts in the combine with three.
Personal
Full name is Mason Brett Braun … born March 2, 2007, in Carmel, Ind. … parents and Scott and Nicole Braun; Dad is a salesman, Mom is an occupational therapist … Dad played baseball and Southern Indiana and Mom played softball at Southern Indiana … has one older sibling, Tyson … chose to attend LSU because of “the coaching staff and the level of expectations everyone has to be the absolute best version of themselves.”
Braun’s LSU Career Highs
Hits: 4 at Mississippi State (4/26/26)
Runs Scored: 2 five times; most recently vs. Florida (5/14/26)
Doubles: 1 five times; most recently vs. Florida (5/16/26)
Triples: 1 at Mississippi State (4/26/26)
Home Runs: 1 vs. South Carolina (5/2/26); 1 vs. Kentucky (3/28/26); vs. Kent State (2/16/26)
RBI: 4 vs. Kentucky (3/28/26)