Guardians select Travis Bazzana with first overall pick in the 2024 MLB Draft presented by Nike

CLEVELAND, OH – The Cleveland Guardians today announced the selection of 2B TRAVIS BAZZANA with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2024 MLB Draft.

Bazzana, a 21-year-old native of Sydney, Australia, is Cleveland’s first-ever selection at No. 1 overall and is the first Australian-born player to be chosen with the 1^st pick in MLB Draft history.

The 6-0, 199-pound, left-handed-hitting second baseman excelled in 3 seasons at Oregon State University (Corvallis, OR), batting .360 (251-for-697) with 52 doubles, 45 home runs, 165 RBI, 66 stolen bases, 180 walks, a .497 on-base percentage, a .660 slugging percentage and a 1.157 OPS from 2022-24. He is the school’s all-time leader in hits, doubles, home runs, total bases (460), stolen bases and walks, helping the Beavers reach the NCAA Super Regionals in 2022 and 2024.

Bazzana enjoyed his best season with the Beavers this spring, slashing .407/.568/.911 with 28 home runs and a 1.479 OPS in 60 games. The Pac-12 Player of the Year ranked 2^nd among NCAA Division I players in walks (76), T7^th in home runs and 8^th in batting average. He was a finalist for the Golden Spikes Award and was tabbed as a first-team All-American by Baseball America, Perfect Game, ABCA, NCBWA and D1Baseball.com.

Prior to attending Oregon State, Bazzana prepped at Turramurra High School in Sydney, Australia, and played in parts of 3 seasons for the Sydney Blue Sox of the Australian Baseball League from 2018-21 as a teenager. He also spent the summer of 2023 in the Cape Cod Baseball League, hitting .375 (51-for-136) and earning league MVP honors with the Falmouth Commodores.

Bazzana is Cleveland’s highest draft pick since Paul Shuey (No. 2 overall) in 1992 and is the club’s first selection from Oregon State since STEVEN KWAN in 2018 (5^th round, 163^rd overall). He joins Baltimore’s Adley Rutschman (2019) as the only players from Oregon State to be selected No. 1 overall in the MLB Draft.