2027 Baseball Roster

23 Akanni Owodunni

  • Class Freshman
  • Hometown Oakland, CA
  • High School Berkeley HS

Biography

HIGH SCHOOL
  • Two-year varsity captain at Berkeley High School under coach Matthew Cord
  • Hit .437 with a .600 on-base percentage, a .972 slugging percentage and a 1.572 OPS, adding 10 home runs and 34 RBIs as a senior in 2026
  • Named 2026 San Francisco Chronicle All-Metro First Team and East Bay Player of the Year
  • Named 2026 West Alameda County Conference-Foothill League Player of the Year, after earning first team all-league honors as a junior and senior
  • Named team MVP in 2026 and Offensive Player of the Year in 2025
  • Holds Berkeley High’s career records for home runs and RBIs, and helped set the school’s single-season wins record with 21 in 2026
  • Named to the West Coast Preps All-Northern California and All-Bay Area teams
  • Invited to the USA Baseball 18U National Team Trials, the Area Code Games twice and the 2026 MLB Draft Combine
  • Ranked in the top 9% of his class with a 4.3 GPA and made the CIF North Coast Section President’s List all four years
  • Also played soccer at Berkeley High
CLUB
  • Played in the MLB Develops Breakthrough Series program under coaches Del Matthews and Kindu Jones
PERSONAL
  • Born to Ade Owodunni and Maria Kong in Berkeley, California
  • As a 6-year-old, sat behind the Oakland A’s dugout trying to get baseballs from third base coach Tye Waller between innings. Twelve years later, Waller became one of his coaches with MLB Develops.
  • Plans to major in finance

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