LSU pitcher Kade Anderson is loving the comparisons he is been attending to former Tigers stars Paul Skenes and Joe Burrow … telling TMZ Sports activities he considers the 2 to be “legends.”

The 20-year-old simply wrapped up his sophomore season in Baton Rouge with a nationwide championship … and now, many anticipate him to be the highest choose in subsequent month’s MLB draft.

With these predictions, he is unsurprisingly garnered comps to Skenes and Burrow — two LSU alums who went No. 1 general of their respective drafts — and he informed us on Wednesday he was tremendous flattered to be even talked about alongside these greats.

“To be in that very same dialog,” he stated whereas working a ceremonial shift at a Elevating Cane’s in Louisiana, “is basically cool. I imply, I grew up watching them play. It is actually thrilling.”

Anderson’s coach, Jay Johnson, was one of many first to rope Anderson into the identical realm as Burrow and Skenes … calling him “one of the best participant within the nation” earlier this month.