FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas announced Tuesday that it has signed seven more players during the November early signing period for the 2016 class.
Five in-state players were announced last week and this bunch includes three players from the Kansas City area.
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Tyler Benninghoff - a right-handed pitcher from Rockhurst High in Overland Park, Kansas - will be reunited with his brother, Jack, who redshirted with the Razorbacks in 2015.
The younger Benninghoff is one the best prospects in the country, rated as the No. 75 overall player and No. 23 right-handed pitcher by Perfect Game. He went 5-1 with a 1.25 ERA as a junior.
Left-handed pitchers Lucas Krull and Blake Lillis are the other two signees from the Kansas City area.
Krull, who attends Mill Valley High in Shawnee, Kansas, is the 29th-best southpaw in the country, according to Perfect Game, while Lillis, who attends St. Thomas Aquinas in Overland Park, Kansas, is the No. 116 lefty.
The other four signees come from Texas, Missouri, Nebraska and Wisconsin.
Sammy Blair is an outfielder from Navasota, Texas, who earned honorable mention All-America honors from Perfect Game after his junior season.
Perfect Game rates catcher Ben Rortvedt (Verona, Wisconsin) and shortstop Cole Stobbe (Omaha, Nebraska) as the No. 2 and No. 4 prospects in the country, respectively, at their positions.
Jacob Kostyshock, a right-handed pitcher from Francis Howell High in Dardenne Prairie, Missouri, is also a top-500 prospect.
All seven players are eligible to be drafted in the 2016 MLB draft. If they are not selected, or chose not to sign professionally, they will play at Arkansas during the 2017 season.