2 former WPIAL baseball players selected in 2025 MLB Draft
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Monday, July 14, 2025 | 8:28 PM
Two former WPIAL baseball players were selected Monday in the MLB Draft with one picked by his hometown team.
The Pittsburgh Pirates drafted 2022 Montour graduate Dylan Mathiesen, a right-handed pitcher at Liberty, while the Toronto Blue Jays chose 2021 Upper St. Clair grad Jake Casey, an outfielder at Kent State. Casey is the son of former MLB all-star Sean Casey.
The Pirates used a 13th-round pick on Mathiesen, a 5-foot-10 junior who pitched two seasons at Liberty after starting his career at Cal (Pa.). This spring he went 2-4 with a 5.07 ERA in 17 starts with 84 strikeouts in 65⅔ innings.
As a high school senior, Mathiesen went 7-1 for Montour with 100 strikeouts in 70 innings.
Casey, a senior, was picked by the Blue Jays in the 15th round. The 6-2, 190-pound outfielder batted .356 with 17 home runs and 55 RBIs this past season.
Congratulations to pitcher Dylan Mathiesen on being selected by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 2025 @MLBDraft . pic.twitter.com/CS5qQzEibz
— Liberty Baseball (@LibertyBaseball) July 14, 2025
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Jake Casey is headed to the Toronto Blue Jays organization.#GoFlashesβ‘οΈ | #BiteDown pic.twitter.com/nS2izFQwPk
— Kent State Baseball (@KentStBaseball) July 14, 2025
Chris Harlan is a TribLive reporter covering sports. He joined the Trib in 2009 after seven years as a reporter at the Beaver County Times. He can be reached at charlan@triblive.com.
Tags: Montour, Upper St. Clair
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