Veteran pitchers Cole Gilley and Ben Grable were selected in the 10th and 11th rounds respectively on Monday (July 14) afternoon to wrap up the 2025 MLB Draft for IU baseball.
In total, four Hoosiers and two Indiana signees were selected among the 615 overall picks in this year’s proceedings.
Previously, outfielders Devin Taylor and Korbyn Dickerson were chosen in the second and fifth rounds, respectively.
Gilley, one of the best pitchers in the Big Ten, was selected in the 10th round by the Philadelphia Phillies. Including Taylor and Dickerson, Gilley gives IU 17 top-10 round selections under head coach Jeff Mercer in the last seven seasons.
In his one season in Bloomington, Gilley was a revelation for pitching coach Dustin Glant and the Hoosiers. The Second Team All-Big Ten selection was one of two Big Ten pitchers to win 10 games this season and maintained a 3.54 earned run average on the year.
The Indiana native racked up 75 strikeouts to just 20 walks. He allowed just 27 earned runs in a team-best 68.2 innings on the mound. He led the team with 12 starts and produced three-straight quality starts to end his senior season in 2025.
His veteran counterpart, Grable, was selected 344th overall in the 11th round by the New York Yankees. He’s the fourth player in program history picked by the Yankees and the first since Grant Richardson (17-513) in 2021.
After recovering from season-ending surgery in 2024, Grable became a big part of the IU staff in his final season of college baseball. He worked a 4.31 earned run average across 17 appearances and 56.1 innings of action. He thrived in pounding the zone with 65 strikeouts to just 17 walks.
Over the last two seasons, IU has had 10 players selected in the MLB Draft. It’s the first time the program has had at least four draft picks in consecutive seasons since 2018 and 2019. In the history of the draft, the Hoosiers have now had 117 unique players selected. 30 of those have come in the Jeff Mercer era (since 2019).
Among the selected players in this year’s draft included IU high school signees Matthew Fisher and Alex Barr. Fisher was a consensus top-100 national prep prospect and was picked in the seventh round by the Philadelphia Phillies. Barr was taken in the 12th round by the Athletics.
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