Scholtens Drafted by San Diego
6/10/2016 4:00:00 AM | Baseball
Wright State senior pitcher Jesse Scholtens was selected by San Diego Friday afternoon in the Major League Baseball draft. He was drafted by the Padres in the ninth round with the 264th pick.
Scholtens (Fairfield, CA/Rodriguez) was a First Team All-Horizon League honoree this season as he led the league in starts with 16 and in innings pitched with 109.2 while tying for the league lead in wins with a record of 10-1. He finished second in strikeouts with 95 and third in both earned run average at 2.95 and in opposing batting average at .220. In league play, he went 6-1 with a 2.17 ERA and 55 strikeouts in 62.1 innings.
Scholtens pitched the first perfect game in school history on March 11 with a 1-0 win at Dayton, striking out a career-high 12 in the process. He struck out nine at Youngstown State on April 22 and eight on three other occasions, including at North Carolina State on February 26.
The Horizon League Pitcher of the Week on March 14, Scholtens was a Second Team All-League selection in 2015 as he went 7-4 with a 3.08 ERA and 72 strikeouts in 90.2 innings.
Scholtens was the second Raider drafted on Friday as junior catcher Sean Murphy was selected by Oakland in the third round with the 83rd overall pick. It is the first time WSU has had two players drafted in the same year since Greg Robinson (Arizona Diamondbacks 32nd round) and Aaron Fields (Cleveland Indians 42nd round) were chosen in 2010.
The two selections also mark just the third time ever that the program has had two players picked in the first 10 rounds. In 1990, outfielder Keith Gordon was selected in the second round by the Cincinnati Reds (47th overall) while pitcher Mike Mathile was selected in the third round by the Montreal Expos (84th overall). The second time occurred in 2008 when first baseman Jeremy Hamilton was chosen in the fifth round by the Philadelphia Phillies (166th overall) and shortstop and current Raider pitching coach Justin Parker was picked in the sixth round by the Diamondbacks (198th overall).
