The 60-year anniversary of the first Major League Baseball Draft was a historic one for players from Hawaii.

Saint Louis alumnus Aiva Arquette, a 6-foot-5 shortstop who hit .354 with 17 doubles, 19 home runs, 66 RBIs and 73 runs scored for Oregon State as a junior this season, was selected with the No. 7 pick by the Miami Marlins, becoming the highest position player and second-highest player ever taken in the draft who graduated from high school in Hawaii.

Only Punahou’s Justin Wayne, who was taken as the fifth overall pick by the Montreal Expos in 2000 after playing college baseball at Stanford, was taken higher.

Arquette transferred to the Beavers after playing two seasons with the Washington Huskies.

The slot value for the No. 7 pick this year is $7,149,900.

Less than two hours after Arquette was picked, Baldwin alumnus Wehiwa Aloy was picked No. 31 overall by the Baltimore Orioles as a free-agent compensation pick.

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The slot value for the No. 31 pick is $3,113,300.

Aloy and Arquette join Kolten Wong (No. 22 pick, 2011 draft) as the highest position players from Hawaii ever selected in the draft.

Hawaii had never had two players who graduated from high school here taken in the first round or the top 50 picks of the same draft.

Aloy, who won the Golden Spikes Award as the best college baseball player in the country, was the first Hawaii-born player and first player outside of the U.S. mainland to win the award.

He was also the SEC Player of the Year after hitting .350 with a team-high 21 home runs and 68 RBIs this season.

Arquette is the first player from Hawaii drafted by the Marlins since the franchise changed names to Miami from Florida.

The Orioles chose a player from Hawaii for just the second time since 2003. Hawaii Pacific’s Brandon Bonilla was selected in the 13th round by the Orioles in 2016.