Texas Tech baseball pitching staff posted Big 12's second-worst ERA. Still, Mac Heuer, Trendan Parish, Jack Cebert, Zane Petty went in MLB draft.
During a miserable 2025 season, the Texas Tech baseball team posted a 6.49 earned-run average, second-worst in the Big 12.
You couldn't tell it by the Major League Baseball draft.
Five Red Raiders, including four pitchers, were selected in the two-day, 20-round draft that concluded Monday, July 14.
The New York Yankees selected Mac Heuer in the eighth round and Jack Cebert in the 15th round. The Tampa Bay Rays chose Trendan Parish in the 10th round, and the Cleveland Guardians took Zane Petty in the 18th round. All are righthanders.
The San Francisco Giants picked outfielder Damian Bravo in the 15th round. Bravo, who came off the board 18 picks before Cebert, was the only Texas Tech position player drafted. The 2024 Big 12 batting champion hit .330 this year with career highs of 13 home runs and 51 runs batted in.
Cebert and Parish are seniors, Bravo and Petty juniors and Heuer a draft-eligible sophomore, having just turned 21. Heuer and Cebert became the second and third Tech righthanders the Yankees have drafted in recent years after they took Chase Hampton in the sixth round of the 2022 draft.
Petty and Heuer were drafted out of high school, Petty a 13th-round pick by the Milwaukee Brewers and Heuer a 16th-round choice by the Cleveland Guardians. Both bypassed those opportunities and became multi-year fixtures in the Red Raiders rotation.
This season, Heuer went 2-4 with a 6.28 ERA, Petty 2-4 with a 5.92 ERA. If both sign professionally, Tech will have to rebuild its rotation from scratch. For most of the season, Heuer was the Red Raiders' No. 1 starter, Tyler Boudreau the No. 2 and Petty the No. 3. Boudreau had his name entered into the NCAA transfer portal after the season and committed to Alabama.
The three started 36 of Tech's 53 games in a 20-33 season.
Cebert went 7-3 with a 3.45 ERA this season. Parish was 1-5 with 7.50 ERA, but ramped up his velocity. After sitting from 90-92 mph most of his Tech career, Parish regularly threw 94-98 this season.
Only one member of the Texas Tech signing class was drafted: The Tampa Bay Rays chose Midland College righthander Jacob Kuhn (9-2, 3.36 ERA) in the seventh round.
Former Maryland first baseman Hollis Porter, the Red Raiders' most high-profile pledge in the NCAA transfer portal, went undrafted. Porter had 21 homers and 64 RBI this year for the Terrapins.
This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Four pitchers among 5 Texas Tech baseball players chosen in MLB draft
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