The Barometer Online

Issue date: 6/24/09 Section: Sports

Media Credit: Cory Reed Former Oregon State shortstop Joey Wong fields a ball during a home game in the 2009 season. Wong was selected by the Colorado Rockies and has since signed a contract with the organization.

The 2009 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft has come and gone and six Oregon State baseball players found themselves selected over the three days. Additionally, five OSU recruits, both in football and baseball, saw themselves selected.
Oregon State selections included: Ryan Ortiz (6th round - Oakland), Jorge Reyes (17th round - San Diego), Kraig Sitton (17th round - Boston), Joey Wong (24th round - Colorado), Greg Peavey (32nd round - Houston) and Adalberto Santos (35th round - San Diego).
Oregon State recruits selected included: Kyrell Hudson (3rd round - Philadelphia), Andrew Susac (16th round - Philadelphia), Tony Bryant (25th round - Minnesota), Jordan Poyer (42nd round - Florida) and Jeff Ames (46th round - Philadelphia).
The draft spanned 50 rounds with 1,421 selections made, and 11 players with ties to Oregon State were selected. Below are notes on the 2009 MLB Draft with an Oregon State flavor.
- Oregon State has now had at least one player selected in the last 17 years, which includes all 15 years under head coach Pat Casey. The last year not to see an OSU player selected was 1992. The Beavers have had at least one player selected in every year of the draft except 1992, 1985, 1979, 1978, 1976, 1973 and 1972.
- The Beavers have had multiple draft selections in each of the last nine seasons.
- Ryan Ortiz going in the sixth round gave Oregon State 22 players selected in the top nine rounds under head coach Pat Casey.
- Oregon State has seen 62 different draft selections in Casey's 15 years. That averages out to more than four per season. More than half of those 62 - 31 - have been pitchers.
- In the last five drafts alone, since the Beavers' 2005 appearance at the College World Series, there have been 34 different selections of Oregon State players.
- Ortiz's selection by Oakland made him the first Beaver to be taken by the Athletics since Mike Gorman in 1982, spanning 27 years.

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