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 perennially recognized for developing MLB talent.
Pike, 18, guided Puyallup High School to the Class 4A state semifinals and lifted the Vikings to a top-three national ranking by MaxPreps. A switch-hitter and middle infielder with a .482 batting average and 28 RBI in his senior season, the right-handed Pike dominated opponents on the mound with a 5-1 record and 0.84 ERA. He struck out 112 batters to just 21 walks (66.2 IP) and was named Washington’s 2025 Gatorade Player of the Year.
“(Mason’s) going to give everything,” now-retired Puyallup head coach Marc Wiese told The News Tribune, “and that’s just been a trademark of Puyallup baseball. He internally has that.”
Brother Mason Pike, left, and Madden Pike both took the mound in the 4A State tournament to help the Puyallup Vikings advance to the semifinals, at Heritage Recreation Center, on Saturday, May 24, 2025, in Puyallup, Wash.
At Oregon State, Pike should have the opportunity to play anywhere and everywhere he wants, both in the lineup and the starting rotation. Given the Nationals signed at least two of their high-school draft selections to over-slot deals — more than what MLB allotted from each team’s designated draft pools — Pike’s decision to play college baseball is far from a surprise.
Scouts raved over Pike’s fastball spin rate, measured at over 2,800 revolutions per minute (RPM) and well above the major-league average (2,300 RPM). It’s what could unlock even nastier pitches at Oregon State before Pike can reenter the draft conversation in 2028.