Arkansas baseball pitcher Zach Root was selected by the Los Angeles Dodgers with the 40th overall pick in the 2025 MLB Draft Sunday night. His teammate, Charles Davalan, went to the Dodgers with the 41st overall pick as Los Angeles tapped into the Arkansas pipeline with back-to-back selections.

After leaning heavily into high school talents in the last two drafts, LA went not just with a pair of college players, but teammates.

Root relies less on his fastball and more on a pitch assortment featuring a changeup, curveball and slider that produced 126 strikeouts in 99⅓ innings last season (fifth in NCAA Division I).