PHILADELPHIA – The Major League Baseball (MLB) Draft concluded on Tuesday, and the University of Pennsylvania was proud to see a pair of Quakers drafted.
Peter Matt, a 2020 graduate, was drafted in the 10th round (304th overall) by the Chicago Cubs and
Josh Hood was drafted in the 20th round (586th overall) by the Boston Red Sox.
Matt and Hood are the seventh and eighth players from the Penn baseball program to be selected in the MLB Draft under W. Joseph Blood Head Coach
John Yurkow, and there have now been 16 Quakers players drafted since 1991.
Matt—who played as a grad transfer at Duke this past season—was a two-time All-Ivy outfielder for the Quakers, earning first-team honors as a junior and second-team recognition as a sophomore. His senior season was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but in eight games before the shutdown he had an Ivy-high 16 hits and ranked second nationally with 2.0 hits per game. For his Penn career, Matt played in 113 games, making 105 starts and hitting .311 with four home runs, 26 doubles and 80 runs scored. In his lone season at Duke, Matt played in 54 of 55 games, ranking second among Blue Devils players with 15 homers and third with 65 hits and a .297 batting average. Duke won the ACC title—Matt's sacrifice fly scoring the lone run in a 1-0 win over N.C. State in the championship game—and played in the NCAA Championship.
Hood—who sat out this season due to the COVID-19 pandemic—was the unanimous Ivy League Rookie of the Year and first-team All-Ivy at shortstop as a freshman in 2019. He started every game for the Quakers that year and led the team with eight homers and 25 extra-base hits while also finishing second in RBI (42) and runs scored (42) and fourth in batting average (.331). In the COVID-shortened 2020 season, Hood started all eight games at SS and had 10 hits, six RBI, five runs scored and a .263 batting average.
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