#10 Michael Braswell III Season 2026
No. 36 – 2025 D1Baseball Top 50 Third Basemen in the Nation
No. 38 – 2025 Perfect Game Top 75 Seniors
2024 NCAA Chapel Hill Regional All-Tournament Team
2024 SEC All-Tournament Team
2024 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll
2022 Freshman All-SEC (at South Carolina)
2022 John Olerud Award Semifinalist (at South Carolina)
SEC Freshman of the Week (Feb. 21, 2022 – at South Carolina)
2025 Season (at LSU)
• Played in 65 games (48 starts) as the Tigers’ primary third baseman, batting .189 (28-for-148) with six doubles, two homers, 18 RBI and 20 runs … played superb defense all season, committing just three errors in 93 chances
• Logged one hit and one RBI in the College World Series and executed flawless defense with 10 assists, two putouts and no errors
• Provided an RBI double in LSU’s NCAA Regional opening game vs. Little Rock (May 30)
• Launched two homers in Tennessee series (April 25-27) while posting three RBI and four runs scored
• 3-for-8 in Alabama series (April 17-19) with one double and one run scored
• 2-for-3 with three RBI in March 15 win over Missouri
2024 Season (at LSU)
• Started 64 games for the Tigers at shortstop, batting .311 (66-for-212) with 12 doubles, three triples, four homers, 36 RBI and 46 runs
• Voted to the NCAA Chapel Hill Regional All-Tournament Team, hitting .381 (8-for-21) with one homer, three RBI and five runs scored
• Named to SEC All-Tournament Team after batting .381 (8-for-21) in five games with two homers, six RBI and eight runs
• Batted a combined .381 (16-for-42) in LSU’s SEC and NCAA postseason games with three homers, nine RBI and 13 runs
• Provided the game-winning, two-out RBI single in the top of the ninth inning vs. his former team, South Carolina (May 23), propelling LSU into the tournament semifinal round
• Finished as the Tigers’ third-leading hitter in SEC regular-season games, batting .310 (31-for-100) with nine doubles, one triple, 11 RBI and 19 runs
• Completed the season No. 3 in the SEC in triples this season with three
• 4-for-13 in Ole Miss series (May 16-18) with three RBI and three runs scored
• 4-for-13 in the Alabama series (May 10-12) with one double, one triple, one RBI and three runs scored
• Batted .400 (4-for-10) in Missouri series (April 19-21) with two doubles, four RBI and one run
• 3-for-9 in Tennessee series (April 12-14) with two doubles and three runs scored
• Batted .500 (5-for-10) in Arkansas series (March 28-30) with one run, one walk, one hit-by-pitch and a .583 on-base pct.
2022 & 2023 Seasons (at South Carolina)
• Transferred to LSU after two seasons at South Carolina (2022-23)
• Played in 51 games for the Gamecocks in 2023, making 37 starts … collected eight doubles, two triples, a home run and 23 RBI
• Drove in two runs in a win over No. 1 LSU (April 6, 2023) … 3-for-3 with three doubles in a win over Florida (April 20, 2023) … homered and drove in three runs in a win at Vanderbilt (April 14, 2023) … had three RBI in an NCAA regional win over Central Connecticut State (June 2, 2023) and was on base four times in the regional championship win over Campbell (June 4, 2023)
• Voted to the 2022 Freshman All-SEC Team, as he played and started in 54 games for the Gamecocks his rookie season … hit .284 in 2022 with 29 runs scored, nine doubles, two triples, two home runs and 27 RBI … had a 16-game hit streak to start the 2022 season … also made seven appearances on the mound in 2022, striking out nine in five innings pitched to go along with a win and three saves
High School
Attended Campbell High School in Smyrna, Ga. … a first-team All-American and All-State selection … hit .447 with 16 RBI and had a 1.00 ERA with 41 strikeouts his senior season at Campbell … ranked No. 90 by Baseball America and No. 105 by MLB.com in the 2021 draft class … ranked the No. 2 shortstop and No. 5 overall player in the state of Georgia by Perfect Game in the class of 2021 … played in the 2020 Perfect Game All-American Classic … voted Perfect Game Preseason All-Southeast Region first team (2021), Perfect Game Preseason Underclass All-American first team (2019) and Perfect Game Preseason Underclass All-American honorable mention (2018) … member of the 2019 17U National Team Development Program … also played shooting guard for the Campbell High basketball team.
Personal
Born on August 29, 2002 … son of Michael Jr. and Precious Braswell … father is an engineering professor, mother is an OB/GYN doctor … has one younger sibling, Madison.
Braswell’s LSU Career Highs
At-Bats: 6 vs. Georgia (5/21/24 – SEC Tournament)
Hits: 4 vs. Wofford (6/2/24 – NCAA Chapel Hill Regional)
Runs Scored: 3 three times; most recently vs. Tennessee (4/27/25)
Doubles: 1 on 18 occasions; most recently vs. Little Rock – 5/30/25 – NCAA Baton Rouge Regional)
Triples: 1 three times; most recently at Alabama (5/11/24)
Home Runs: 1 six times; most recently vs. Tennessee (4/27/25)
RBI: 3 three times; most recently vs. Missouri (3/15/25)