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1. Baseball Players
2. MLB Draft

Sooners in the MLB Draft

Note: There are some discrepancies among various draft sources that will be researched in the future. (see Notes)

Players Picked | Total Picks by Year | Total Picks by Round

Players Picked ▪ 1978 (6)

Year	Round	Pick	Player	Team	Pos
1978	6	136	Doug Smith	Seattle Mariners	P
1978	6	150	Terry Bogener	Texas Rangers	OF
1978	7	177	Mark Nipp	Los Angeles Dodgers	P
1978	11	272	Art Toal	Detroit Tigers	2B
1978	17	420	Don Morris	Oakland Athletics	OF
1978	25	608	Lee Hover	Cincinnati Reds	OF

Notes

• First MLB draft was in 1965.
• All players were drafted in the primary June draft except where noted with the following:
  • JunSec = June Secondary Draft
  • Jan = January Draft
  • JanSec = January Secondary Draft
• The following players are shown in OU's official draft lists on their website and in the most recent media guide I have access to (2022), but are not on the Letterwinners list or in previous media guides and therefore not in my database. I have also reached out to Baseball Reference since they have some of the same information. Research notes are in bold:
  • Michael Burns, OF, 1967, 41st round, 748th pick, Cleveland
  • Eddie Williams, P, 1968, 43rd round, 852nd pick, Baltimore - Played at Southwestern Oklahoma State
  • Dan Massari, 1B, 1976, 4th round, 81st pick, Cleveland - Played at OSU
  • Joe Price, P, 1977, 4th round, 102nd pick, Cincinnati - Played at OSU
  • Billy Irions, P, 1981, 1st round, 6th pick, Philadelphia - Played at Seminole (OK)
  • Kight Higgins, P, 1983, 3rd round, 50th pick, San Francisco - Played at Seminole (OK), then TCU (confirmed with player)