BOCA RATON, Fla. – (June 4, 2019) – On Tuesday, Florida Atlantic University baseball catcher Pedro Pages became the latest Owl to the pros, as he was selected in the sixth round of the 2019 Major League Baseball Draft by the St. Louis Cardinals.
Pages, a junior team captain and the reigning Conference USA Defensive Player of the Year, was taken by St. Louis as the 185th overall pick on Tuesday. Former Owl Austin Gomber is a current member of the Cardinals’ organization, as a fourth round pick in 2014. Gomber made his MLB debut nearly a year ago today, on June 2, 2018. All-time, St. Louis has drafted seven Owls, including the team’s second-ever Major Leaguer, Carmen Cali (taken in 2000, debuted in 2004).
A total of 95 Owls have now been drafted, since the first picks in program history in 1984, and Pages is the 31st draftee since Head Coach John McCormack took over in 2009. This also now marks 14 straight drafts – and 20 of the last 21 – in which an FAU player has been taken. The potential remains for more Owls to hear their name called on Wednesday, when rounds 11-40 concludes the three-day proceedings, beginning at noon on MLB.com.
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Florida Atlantic University Athletics:
FAU Athletics is comprised of 21 intercollegiate teams involving 450 student-athletes that compete in baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, indoor and outdoor track, volleyball, beach volleyball, cheer and dance. The Owls are a NCAA Division I-A (FBS) institution and compete in Conference USA and the Coastal Collegiate Sports Association (CCSA) (beach volleyball, men’s swimming). The Owls have been playing football since 2001 and are a perfect 3-0 in bowl games, the most recent being a 50-3 victory over Akron in the 2017 Cheribundi Tart Cherry Boca Raton Bowl. The dance team finished its 2014 season No. 8, nationally. FAU cheer won a national championship in 2016.
About Florida Atlantic University:
Florida Atlantic University, established in 1961, officially opened its doors in 1964 as the fifth public university in Florida. Today, the University, with an annual economic impact of $6.3 billion, serves more than 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students at sites throughout its six county service region in southeast Florida. FAU’s world-class teaching and research faculty serves students through 10 colleges: the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, the College of Business, the College for Design and Social Inquiry, the College of Education, the College of Engineering and Computer Science, the Graduate College, the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing and the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science. FAU is ranked as a High Research Activity institution by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The University is placing special focus on the rapid development of critical areas that form the basis of its strategic plan: Healthy aging, biotech, coastal and marine issues, neuroscience, regenerative medicine, informatics, lifespan and the environment. These areas provide opportunities for faculty and students to build upon FAU’s existing strengths in research and scholarship. For more information, visit www.fau.edu.
