Oklahoma Sooners Baseball program just took a massive blow and got a huge boost all in the same week
The Oklahoma Sooners are now a premier baseball program after winning the National Championship and having several players drafted in the MLB Draft.
The Oklahoma Sooners have pretty much always been considered a football school first. Then, softball and gymnastics follow with dynasties being built and sustained there over the last ten years. Now, OU can be considered a baseball school, too. They just won the National Championship, so I’d say that’s fair.
Not only did they do that, but something else helps them claim that title. They had eight players drafted during this week’s MLB Draft. Now, that means two things. Firstly, that’s a huge boost to their program. It shows players who want to play for OU, a National Champion, that they send players to the big leagues. The downside of all this, because there is a downside, is that they just lost a lot of good players.
Here are all the players drafted this week who played for Skip Johnson and Oklahoma this past season:
Sooners Baseball Players Drafted
– No. 99 OF/C Brendan Brock (NYY)
– No. 141 SS Jaxon Willits (LAA)
– No. 148 RHP LJ Mercurius (AZ)
– No. 184 C Deiten Lachance (CLE)
– No. 269 3B Camden Johnson (KC)
– No. 413 RHP Mason Bixby (TB)
– No. 435 LHP Cameron Johnson (CHW)
– No. 533 LHP Nate Smithburg (TB)
This now makes it insanely hard to go back-to-back. And that’s already hard enough. Back-to-back championships in college baseball are extraordinarily difficult. The last team to accomplish the feat was South Carolina in 2010 and 2011. LSU came close with titles in 2023 and 2025, but no program has managed consecutive crowns since.
Oklahoma has reached this stage before, reaching the championship series in 2022 against Ole Miss, where it fell short. Winning it all this time around changes the program’s identity. They are, as we already said, now a baseball school. They are still returning a very large portion of their pitching staff that played lights out.
The Sooners captured their first national championship since 1994, and the combination of returning talent and staff investment suggests they aren’t content with a single title. If anyone can put together a squad capable of repeating, it feels like Skip Johnson is the guy.