Sam Horn was selected by the Dodgers in the 17th round despite limited college pitching experience after Tommy John surgery and just 15 career innings. Horn is a 6-foot-4 right-hander with a big fastball, a promising slider and an athletic, projectable build. Horn also serves as a Missouri quarterback, a four-star recruit from the 2022 class, and remains undecided between baseball and football. He is competing with Penn State transfer Beau Pribula for the starting job, and Missouri plans to evaluate both players during live games this season, beginning with a split in the opener.
Horn is not only a two-sport athlete, but someone still undecided on whether his future will be on a mound or the gridiron. As a quarterback, he was a four-star recruit in Missouri's 2022 signing class. And this fall, he has been locked in a battle with Penn State transfer Beau Pribula, jockeying for first-string signal-caller duties at an SEC program coming off a 10-win season.
"I think both quarterbacks have done an excellent job of doing the things that we've asked them to do, and there wasn't enough separation that I felt like there was a clear-cut starter," Drinkwitz told reporters this week. "And so the next-best evaluation is in a live football game to see how guys respond, not only to preparation and a game plan, but also respond to a crowd, also respond to being tackled and being hit."
In the 17th round of last month's MLB draft, the Dodgers took a flier on University of Missouri pitcher Sam Horn, a 6-foot-4 right-hander with a big fastball, a promising slider and an athletic, projectable build.
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