Fanatics and Topps have signed their first collegiate baseball player to an NIL deal for autographs and trading cards.
Two-way star Jac Caglianone of the University of Florida signed the deal just ahead of his appearance at the College World Series in Omaha.
Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.
The 6’5 lefthander from Tampa strikes out 10.2 batters per nine innings on the mound.
Caglianone hit .411 as a first baseman for the Gators. Heading into the CWS, he was second in the nation with 33 homers, fourth in slugging percentage and sixth in batting average.
He homered in nine consecutive games in a stretch from April 6-19 this season, tying an NCAA record and was the team’s starting pitcher twice during that span.
He’s expected to be among the top players taken in next month’s MLB Draft.
“I’d love to [be a two-way player] at the professional level. But if a team … is very adamant about me just doing one or the other, then I gotta make it work somehow,” he told the Gainesville Sun.
Fanatics is already offering a line of autographed baseballs, photos, jerseys and bats on its website.
Baseball cards, some with autographs, are likely to arrive in the near future.
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