The Los Angeles Dodgers selected Shorecrest center fielder Mike Burgher Tuesday in the 36th round of the major league baseball first-year player draft.
Burgher was the 1,078th overall pick and the only Western Conference senior selected.
“I was looking on the Internet all day,” Burgher said. “I thought I was going to go earlier.”
Some of the scouts Burgher had talked to told him he would likely be taken somewhere in rounds 20-25.
“A lot of my friends were already picked, so I was kind of stressing out about it,” said Burgher, a first-team all-Wesco South selection.
Burgher has yet to decide where he will play next year. He listed the University of Washington, Edmonds Community College and a junior college in Arizona as possibilities.
If he attends Washington, Burgher would be ineligible for the draft for the next three years. By choosing the junior college route, he would be eligible to sign with the Dodgers within the next year or re-enter the draft next June.
Burgher and two of his teammates on the Edmonds-based Shockers Baseball Club were among the pool of players with Washington state ties drafted.
“I was just hoping to go,” Burgher said. “It felt like recognition for all my hard work.”
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