LSU baseball pitcher Grant Taylor injures UCL, will be out for the 2023 season | Report

BATON ROUGE - LSU baseball pitcher Grant Taylor will miss the entire 2023 season after injuring his UCL, according to D1Baseball.

Taylor posted a 5.81 earned run average last season for the Tigers but excelled last summer in the Cape Cod Baseball League, posting a 2.14 ERA in 21 innings pitched. The sophomore was projected to be a potential starter for LSU this season.

D1Baseball also reports that Taylor intends on returning to LSU in 2024 and will pass up a chance at entering the 2023 MLB Draft.

Without Taylor, LSU still has options in its rotation behind Friday starter Paul Skenes and likely Saturday starter Thatcher Hurd. Ty Floyd, Vanderbilt transfer Christian Little, freshmen Aiden Moffett and Chase Shores and Samuel Dutton are all viable candidates to fill a starting role.

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The Tigers' season opener against Western Michigan is on Friday (6:30 p.m., SEC Network+).

Koki Riley covers LSU sports for The Daily Advertiser and the USA TODAY Sports South Region. Email him at kriley@theadvertiser.com and follow him on Twitter at @KokiRiley.