Carmen Mlodzinski

Carmen Mlodzinski (born February 19, 1999) is an American college baseball pitcher for the South Carolina Gamecocks.

Career

Mlodzinski attended and graduated from Hilton Head Island High School in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. In 2017, his senior season, he was named the South Carolina 4A Player of the Year. After informing professional scouts that he would be honoring his college commitment to the University of South Carolina, he went undrafted in the 2017 Major League Baseball draft and thus enrolled at USC to play college baseball for the South Carolina Gamecocks.

In 2018, Mlodinzski's freshman year at USC, he pitched ​45 ⁄₃ innings, going 3-6 with a 5.52 ERA and 21 walks and 43 strikeouts over 19 games (seven starts). As a sophomore in 2019, he was the Gamecocks' opening day starter. However, during his third start of the year, he suffered a foot injury and missed the remainder of the 2019 season. That summer, he returned from the injury, playing for the Falmouth Commodores of the Cape Cod Baseball League and pitching to a 1.83 ERA and 43 strikeouts as opposed to five walks over ​34 ⁄₃ innings.

Mlodzinski entered his redshirt sophomore season in 2020 as a top prospect for the 2020 Major League Baseball draft. He pitched to a 2.84 ERA over four starts before the college baseball season was cut short due to the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic.