CORVALLIS – Oregon State catcher Logan Ice has been selected in the second round, 72nd overall, by the Cleveland Indians in the 2016 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft on Thursday.
Ice has played three seasons for the Beavers, posting a .279 batting average with 26 doubles, six triples, 10 home runs and 80 runs batted in over 164 games.
The Puyallup, Wash., native is the reigning Pac-12 Conference Defensive Player of the Year – in addition to being a first-team selection – and is a finalist for the Johnny Bench Award, which is given annually to the nation’s top catcher.
In 54 games for Oregon State in 2016, he committed just one passed ball, tallied a .990 fielding percentage and threw out better than 44 percent of opposing basestealers. In his three seasons in Corvallis, he has thrown out 48.5 percent (49-of-102) of runners attempting to steal and committed just four passed balls.
He is the seventh Oregon State player selected by Cleveland all-time, and the first since Taylor Starr in the 37th round in 2011.
The selection is the first of Ice’s career.
Ice is the 41st Oregon State player to be selected in the top nine rounds of the draft under head coach Pat Casey, and the 30th since 2005.
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