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Giants Take WVU Baseball Pitcher, Capping Historic Draft for West Virginia
One final WVU baseball player was drafted on Tuesday. The San Francisco Giants selected Tyler Switalski in the 16th round of the 2024 MLB Draft with pick No. 478.
In his lone season as a Mountaineer, Switalski went 5-3 with a 5.10 ERA and 58 strikeouts in 67.0 innings pitched.
Swit is off the board!@Tyler_Switalski is selected in the 16th round by the San Francisco Giants!#HailWV pic.twitter.com/k1DKMYKOiH
— WVU Baseball (@WVUBaseball) July 16, 2024
West Virginia will like remember Switalski for his postseason heroics. He earned a spot on the Tucson Regional All-Tournament Team after tossing 7.2 innings against Grand Canyon while allowing just one run. He followed that up with 6.1 innings against No. 3 North Carolina in the NCAA Super Regionals.
WVU’s Tyler Switalski pitches as the Mountaineers played against North Carolina on June 8, 2024, in the Super Regionals of the NCAA Tournament at Boshamer Stadium in Chapel Hill, N.C. (Mitchell Northam / WV Sports Now)
Switalski was the fifth Mountaineer taken in this year’s draft, joining shortstop JJ Wetherholt (No. 7, Cardinals) and pitchers David Hagaman (No. 133, Rangers), Aidan Major (No. 146, Guardians), and Derek Clark (No. 262, Angels). Overall, he is the 112th Mountaineer to be chosen in the MLB Draft all time, including 42 during coach Randy Mazey’s tenure (2013-2024).
It is the first time since 2019 that WVU has had at least five players selected in the MLB Draft and the first time since the draft was shortened to 20 rounds in 2021. Overall, it is just the fifth time that five Mountaineers have gone in a single draft along with 1999, 2001, 2014, and 2019.
Go to the WVU baseball section on WV Sports Now to catch up our coverage of the MLB Draft.
