The deadline for MLB Draft selections to sign their contracts has come and gone, confirming what Puyallup’s star pitcher has already posted to social media: Mason Pike is headed to Corvallis.

Pike, The News Tribune’s All-Area Baseball Player of the Year, will attend Oregon State University and play for the program he committed to more than four years ago, he announced on Instagram and Twitter/X on Sunday morning.

“See you in Corvallis,” Pike wrote. “Go Beavs!”

Considered the nation’s No. 44 high school prospect by Perfect Game and projected as an early-round draft selection, the local two-way standout fell to the Washington Nationals in the 19th round of the MLB Draft from July 13-14. With future first-round potential (along with a much larger payday), he’ll join a Beavers program peren

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