Ten Knights selected in MLB draft

Monday, July 14, Corvallis, Ore. – Eight more current or former Corvallis Knights were selected on the second day of the 2025 Major League Baseball draft, running the two-day total to 10.

Players chosen on Day 2 were right-handed pitcher Kaleb Wing (incoming Loyola Marymount); left-handed pitchers Nelson Keljo (Oregon State) and Luke Kovach (Cal Poly); catchers Tyler Howard (Portland) and Anson Aroz (Oregon), and right-handed pitchers Brady Jones (Georgia Tech), Merit Jones (Utah) and Frank Camarillo (UC Santa Barbara).

Eight members of the 2023 WCL championship team were selected. Here’s a rundown:

• The son of former Knights pitching coach Ryan Wing, Kaleb Wing is an incoming freshman at LMU. He was 0-0, 14.72 in 3.2 innings over two games, with five strikeouts. He went to the Chicago Cubs in the 4^th round as the 121^st overall pick.
• Keljo was picked by Cleveland in the 6^th round at 192. He pitched for the Knights in 2022 following his senior year at Jesuit High School, prior to enrolling at Oregon State. He went 0-0 with one save and a 5.22 ERA in 10.1 innings over five games. He was also the Most Outstanding Player at that summer’s Richardson Oregon All-Star Series, an annual high school showcase put on by Knights Baseball Club.
• Howard went to Cleveland in the 11^th round as the 342^nd overall pick. A catcher from the University of Portland, he hit a combined .258 (51-198) in 67 games over two seasons (2023-24), with 31 RBIs, and an outstanding 55-20 walk-strikeout ratio. He was honorable-mention all-WCL in 2024.
• Brady Jones was picked by Tampa Bay out of Georgia Tech in the 12^th round as the 357^th overall pick. He pitched for Corvallis in 2023 out of Georgia State and went 2-0, 1.80 in 10.0 innings over five games, with 12 strikeouts.
• Merit Jones of Utah was 2-1, 1.05 in nine games with the 2023 Knights, with 47 strikeouts in 42.2 innings. He did not allow a run in 11 innings in two playoff games and was the winning pitcher in the championship game vs. Victoria. He went to the Minnesota Twins in the 14^th round as the 419^th overall pick. He was second-team all-WCL and earned the Knights Top Pitcher award.
• Camarillo, of UC Santa Barbara, went to the New York Mets in the 13^th round as the 403^rd pick. He was 1-0, 1.13 in 12 games in 2023, with two saves and 24 strikeouts in 22.0 innings.
• Kovach pitched for the Knights in 2023 out of Allen Hancock College before enrolling at Cal Poly. He was 0-0, 1.35 in nine games, with 18 strikeouts in 13.1 innings. He was taken by Toronto in the 19^th round as the 562^nd overall selection.
• Aroz caught for Corvallis in 2023 and hit .215 in 30 games, with a homer and 17 RBIs. He went to the Los Angeles Dodgers as the final pick of the 19^th round, the 585^th overall selection.

Two other alums were selected on July 13, the first day of the draft.

Tyler Bremner (2023), a right-handed pitcher from UC Santa Barbara, was selected as the No. 2 overall pick by the Los Angeles Angels. He was 0-0, 1.80 in three appearances for the Knight, with seven strikeouts in five innings before returning to his hometown of San Diego earlier than anticipated because of a family matter. He was an All-American at UCSB this season.

Infielder Ethan Hedges of USC, a teammate of Bremner’s on the 2023 WCL champions, went to Colorado in the third round with the 77^th overall pick. He was first-team all-league after hitting .287, with two homers, 34 RBIs and 17 steals.