Articles Tagged: Hawkeye baseball

When Abdul Hodge is recruiting, he’s “looking for the next Addison Ostrenga.”

Here is your bi-weekly update on players in affiliated professional baseball (major and minor leagues) from the Gazette area and University of Iowa.

Here’s your 8th look at how baseball players from the Gazette area and University of Iowa are doing in the major leagues and affiliated minor leagues.

Here’s your latest update on how professional baseball players in the affiliated minor leagues and major leagues are doing. Stats are through Friday.

Iowa City High grad Cade Obermueller was taken Tuesday by the Texas Rangers in the 19th round of the 2024 Major League Baseball Draft. He was a unique draft-eligible sophomore from the University of Iowa. Five Hawkeyes players went this year in the 20-round draft.

Iowa City West grad and 2021 Gazette Male Athlete of the Year Marcus Morgan was taken Monday afternoon by the Philadelphia Phillies in the ninth round of the Major League Baseball Draft. The junior pitcher was one of three Iowa Hawkeyes drafted Monday and one of four selected overall thus far in the 20-round draft.

Brody Brecht was expected to a be a first-round pick in Sunday night’s Major League Baseball Draft. But the former Hawkeye dropped to the Competitive Balance-A Round, where the Colorado Rockies plucked him 38th overall.

The University of Iowa has hired Sean Kenny as its baseball program’s new pitching coach. He has 28 seasons of college coaching experience.

Here’s your latest update on how professional baseball players in the affiliated minor leagues and major leagues are doing. Stats are through Thursday.

Urbandale native and former Iowa Hawkeyes pitcher Ty Langenberg’s big goal in his first professional baseball season was to at one point be with the Cedar Rapids Kernels. He already achieved that last week when the parent Minnesota Twins promoted him from low-A Fort Myers.

Here’s your latest update on how professional baseball players in the affiliated minor leagues and major leagues are fairing. Stats are through Friday.

Pitcher Ty Langenberg has been promoted from low-Class A Fort Myers to the high-A Cedar Rapids Kernels, the parent Minnesota Twins announced Tuesday. Langenberg was an 11th-round draft pick of the Twins last summer out of the University of Iowa. The Urbandale native pitched three seasons for the Hawkeyes.

Here’s a look at how players from Eastern Iowa and the University of Iowa are doing in affiliated professional baseball, including major leaguers Mitch Keller, Colin Rea and A.J. Puk.

Bo Porter is grateful for everything baseball has given him over the years. Now in his first season as first base coach for the Los Angeles Angels, his focus remains simple.

Iowa’s baseball season came to a conclusion Thursday afternoon as the Hawkeyes fell to Illinois, 4-2, in 10 innings in a Big Ten tournament loser’s bracket game at Omaha’s Charles Schwab Field.