SEACAUCUS, N.J.-Wednesday afternoon, Jayden Murray, the ace of the Dixie State pitching staff this past season, was selected by the Tampa Bay Rays in the 23rd round of the 2019 MLB Draft.
Murray is the seventh Dixie State product to be drafted in the school’s 13-year history as an NCAA Division II school.
He is the 46th Dixie State player to be drafted all-time, dating back to 1976.
The 6-1 190-pound native of Vernal, Utah and former standout at Arizona Western College of Yuma, Ariz., broke or tied four Dixie State single-season records in 2019 and set two career standards for the program.
The right-handed Murray set a single-season program mark with 92 strikeouts and strikeouts per nine innings (9.93).
The senior earned second-team All-Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference honors as well as from ABCA/Rawlings in 2019.
He leaves the program as the Trailblazers’ all-time leader in strikeouts per nine innings (8.39). He is also fourth all-time in program history in career strikeouts (138) and tied for fourth in career wins (13).
This commemorates the third consecutive year a Dixie State pitcher has been drafted, as well as the fifth time in the past six years.
