After electing to be redrafted following a superb junior season with Iowa baseball in 2025, Hawkeyes ace pitcher Cade Obermueller has found a new city to call home when he begins his professional baseball journey.
During the 2025 MLB draft Sunday night from Atlanta, GA., Obermueller was selected by the Philadelphia Phillies in the second round with the No. 63 overall pick.
The 6-foot, 170-pound left-handed native of Iowa City, Iowa, finished this past season with a 5-3 record and a 3.02 ERA in 83 1/3 innings across 15 appearances on the mound for the Hawkeyes. He also recorded a career-high 117 strikeouts, which ranks second all-time in program history for strikeouts in a single season.
With the 63rd pick of the MLB Draft, the Phillies have selected LHP Cade Obermueller#RingTheBell x #MLBDraftpic.twitter.com/RJNK1uBZa4
— Phillies Player Development (@PhilsPlayerDev) July 14, 2025
Obe ➡️ Philly@CadeObermueller x #Hawkeyespic.twitter.com/VTFPuUcEcT
— Iowa Baseball (@UIBaseball) July 14, 2025
While the Hawkeyes’ season ended in the 2025 Big Ten Tournament semifinals, Obermueller earned a number of honors that included being named as a member of the 2025 All-Big Ten Tournament team, ABCA/Rawlings NCAA All-Midwest Region first-team, and the Perfect Game third-team All-American roster.
The @Phillies got a good one in southpaw Cade Obermueller.
Relive the former @UIBaseball ace fanning 1️⃣0️⃣ batters in a late May win over Rutgers 👇#B1GBaseballpic.twitter.com/ShSsI7dgCR
— Big Ten Baseball (@B1Gbaseball) July 14, 2025
His impressive junior season with the Hawkeyes allowed the southpaw to improve his pre-draft rankings, as he was listed No. 53 overall in MLB’s Top 250 prospect rankings.
Obermueller was originally drafted by the Texas Rangers in the 19th round (585th pick) of the 2024 MLB draft, but chose to forgo signing with the Rangers organization to return to Iowa.
Given his positioning in the draft, the approximate pick value estimated by MLB.com is listed at $1.42 million.
Over his three years with the program, Obermueller has amassed an overall record of 11-7 and a 3.60 ERA in 30 starts through 165 innings of work on 43 appearances. He also has accrued 226 strikeouts and one career save.
The selection is also notable for the Obermueller family as Cade’s father, Wes, pitched five seasons in the major leagues after the Kansas City Royals selected him out of Iowa in the second round of the 1999 MLB draft.
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