BLACKSBURG – On the final day of the 2017 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft, Virginia Tech pitcher Aaron McGarity was selected by the New York Yankees in the 15th round with the 452nd overall pick which extended the Hokies’ streak of at least two players chosen in the MLB draft to nine straight years.
McGarity, a redshirt-junior from Richmond, Virginia, is just the second player ever picked by the Yankees, with the other being pitcher Bean Stringfellow during the 1984 draft. In that draft, the lefty was chosen with the 440th selection after his junior season, but chose to go back to Tech and was again drafted in 1985, so never played in the Yankees' organization.