Alum Flora selected Number 4 by Giants

July 13, 2026, Corvallis, Ore.  – Corvallis Knights alum Jackson Flora of UC Santa Barbara (pictured, above) was the fourth overall selection in the Major League Baseball draft on July 11.

A right-handed pitcher who played for the Knights in 2024, Flora was selected by the San Francisco Giants. He was the sixth Knights picked in the top 10 of the draft in the past eight seasons.

He was 1-0 with an 0.69 ERA in three games for Corvallis, with nine strikeouts in 13 innings.

Flora was 12-0, 1.06 for the Gauchos in 2026 and earned numerous All-America honors. He was the Big West Conference Pitcher of the Year and the National Pitcher of the Year by Perfect Game and the College Baseball Foundation.

Other Knights selected in the top 10 since 2018 are Adley Rutschman (2016) and Travis Bazzana (2021), who went No. 1 in the 2019 and 2024 drafts to Baltimore and Cleveland, respectively; Tyler Bremner (2023), No. 2 by the Los Angeles Angels in 2025; Nick Madrigal (2015), No. 4 by the Chicago White Sox in 2018, and Brooks Lee (2019), No. 8 by the Minnesota Twins in 2022.

Rutschman, Bazzana and Madrigal played at Oregon State. Bremner played at UC Santa Barbara and lee starred at Cal Poly.

Four other Knights alums were selected.

• Right-handed pitcher Tyner Horn of Nebraska went to Cincinnati in the third round as the 94^th overall pick. A second-team West Coast League all-star in 2024, he was 1-0, 2.20 in nine games with the Knights, with 35 strikeouts in 32.2 innings.
• Right-handed pitcher Matt Scott of Georgia went to Cleveland in the eighth round as the 243^rd overall selection. He played for the Knights in 2022, prior to his freshman year at Stanford, and went 1-0, 3.22 in seven games, with 20 strikeouts in 19 innings.
• Left-handed pitcher Miles Gostzola of Oregon was also an eighth-round pick, by the Los Angeles Dodgers as the 253^rd overall selection. He played for Corvallis in 2023 before his freshman season at Gonzaga and was 1-1, 2.61 in five games, with 18 strikeouts in 20.2 innings.
• Utah right-handed pitcher Colter McAnelly went to the Minnesota Twins in the 18^th round as the 527^th overall pick. He was a two-way player for Corvallis in 2024, hitting .273 with 21 RBIs in 35 games as a position player and going 3-2, 2.70 in seven games on the mound, with 28 strikeouts in 26.2 innings.

The Knights are idle on July 13. Their next home game is a July 14 rematch with Gunderson Baseball, starting at 6:35 p.m. They edged Gunderson 2-1 at Goss on June 24.

The WCL All-Star Game is Wednesday, July 15, at Victoria. Pitcher Morgan Codron (Portland) and utility Ethan Porter (Oregon State) will represent the Knights.

Corvallis hosts the Salem Sock Puppets in a nonleague game on July 16, then resumes WCL action against Walla Walla at Goss Stadium on July 17-19.

The probable starting pitchers for July 17-18 have not been announced. Nebraska lefty Colin Nowaczyk (2-0, 2.40) gets the ball on July 19.