Elijah Dunham signs with Yankees

Auston Matricardi Elijah Dunham (left) hands off his equipment to then-IU volunteer assistant coach Casey Dykes (right) after making the final out of an inning at Bart Kaufman Field in 2019. Following the season, Dykes left the program for the Yankees farm system and now Dunham has done the same.Despite not having a player selected in the very abbreviated 2020 MLB Draft back on June 10 and 11, the IU baseball program will lose at least one player to the professional ranks this offseason.

On Wednesday, IU junior Elijah Dunham announced that he has signed with the New York Yankees as an undrafted free agent. Typically, players in Dunham’s position head back to school if they don’t get drafted,…