2019 Draft - Mets Pick 32.958 - RP Cole Gordan - Mississippi State

With the 958^th pick (32^nd round) in the 2019 draft, the Mets picked: 


5-yr. senior RP, Cole Gordan, out of Mississippi State.

2019 stats:  26-appearances, 4-0, 3.96, 38.2-IP, 61-K

6-5   244

hailstate - 2018 (Junior Season)

Awards: Earned SEC Spring Academic Honor Roll.

Season: Appeared in a team-high 30 games with one start…Lone start came against Texas Southern (3/21)…Picked up four victories and had a team-best four saves…Added two holds and had two blown saves…Posted wins versus Louisiana (3/2), against Texas Southern (3/21), versus Ole Miss (4/24) and against Oklahoma (6/3)…

Collected saves versus Sam Houston State (3/4), at LSU (3/30), against Florida (5/19) and versus North Carolina (6/19)…Had holds versus UC-Santa Barbara (2/23) and in the second game of a doubleheader against Arkansas (4/21)…Stranded 19 of 31 inherited runners.

Rankings: Finished No. 51 nationally and No. 6 in the SEC in relief appearances (30).

clarionledger - Part of Lemonis wanted to take the baseball from senior pitcher Cole Gordon’s hand and send him to the dugout. The other part told himself to give Gordon a chance. That’s the side he listened to.

“I was actually going out there to ask him if he had any left in the tank,” Lemonis said. “But halfway there, he started barking at me that he wanted this last guy. So, I pretty much turned around and walked back to the dugout.”

Gordon had runners at first and second with two outs in the top of the 13th inning. He had already pitched 4.2 innings against the LSU Tigers up to that point. There was no way he was leaving the bump in a 4-4 game with two men on base that he was responsible for.

There was no way he was handing the ball over to Lemonis without trying to get the last out.

“I told him those were my runs out there,” Gordon said. “I owed it to the team to get that guy out.”

That’s exactly what he did.

On a 3-1 count against LSU’s lead-off hitter Josh Smith, Gordon got him to ground out to MSU sophomore first baseman Tanner Allen. Allen stepped on the bag to record the final out of the top half of the 13th without having to toss the ball back to Gordon.

Gordon never touched it again, but it’s what he did while he was holding and hurling the baseball over the course of five innings that might’ve been the difference in Mississippi State's 6-5 SEC Tournament victory.