LSU Baseball: What The Tigers Did Over The Summer – Bino Watters Won MVP

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LSU baseball coach Jay Johnson has announced the Tigers’ Summer 2026 awards, recognizing three new players – junior outfielder Bino Watters, senior second baseman Cade Kurland and freshman right-handed pitcher Coleton Brady.

Watters is LSU’s Summer Player of the Year after hitting .318 (42-for-132) in the wooden-bat Cape Cod League for the Chatham Anglers in Chatham, Massachusetts. A native of Rochester Hills, Michigan, Watters played his first two collegiate seasons at Notre Dame. He earned Cape Cod League All-Star recognition over the summer with the Anglers, and he won the team’s Thurman Munson Most Outstanding Position Player Award. He had 29 RBIs with seven doubles and a home run.

A first team, All-Atlantic Coast Conference selection at Notre Dame, Watters hit .362 (79-for-218) with 10 homers, 18 doubles, three triples and 51 RBIs for the Irish.

Kurland, a native of Tampa, Florida, who transferred to LSU from Florida, was honored by Johnson for helping lead the Harwich (Massachusetts) Mariners to the Cape Cod League Championship. He hit .238 (25-for-105) in 30 games with eight doubles, two homers, 15 RBIs and 16 runs in 30 games. An excellent defender, he hit .276 (200-for-725) in 193 games over four seasons for Florida, collecting 34 doubles, one triple, 43 home runs, 142 RBIs and 171 runs.

Brady was the weight room winner. A native of North Collins, New York, he played at TNXL Academy in Ocoee, Florida, and was rated by Perfect Game as the No. 56 right-handed pitcher in the nation and the No. 3 overall player in the state of New York when he signed with LSU.