TEMPE, Ariz. – Sun Devil Baseball student-athlete Brett Lilek was selected with the 50th overall pick in the second round by the Miami Marlins on the first day of the 2015 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft.
Lilek is a two-time All-Pac-12 honoree, including a first-team selection in 2014, and his 3.05 career earned run average ranks as the seventh lowest in school history during the aluminum bat era. He went 10-8 with 162 strikeouts in 31 starts and 44 career appearances across 182.2 innings, and also excelled in the classroom as a 2014 Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention and a three-time Scholar Baller®.
He started 15 games in 2015 and notched a 3.20 ERA and a .213 opponent batting average, fourth lowest in the Pac-12, en route to All-Pac-12 honorable mention recognition. He tallied a 2.68 ERA in 15 starts in 2014 and was one of three pitchers in the Pac-12 to finish in the top eight in the conference in the regular season in ERA, opposing batting average and strikeouts.
This is the second time Lilek has been drafted as he was taken by the Seattle Mariners in the 37th round (1121st overall) of the 2012 MLB Draft.
Forty-two Sun Devils have been taken in the MLB Draft since 2010, which is the most of any Div. I school in that time span.
ASU leads all NCAA schools with 401 total MLB draft picks, and at least one Sun Devil has been drafted every year since the draft's inception in 1965. The first-ever MLB draft pick was former Sun Devil Rick Monday.
Lilek joins fellow Sun Devil pitcher Trevor Williams, who was taken in the second round by the Marlins in 2013.
Blake Perkins, an outfielder from Verrado HS and a member of the Sun Devils' 2015 signing class, was taken by the Washington Nationals with the 69th overall pick.