Two Seawolves Baseball Players Are Picked Up by MLB Teams

Worley selected in 6th round of the 2026 MLB Draft by Arizona, Gell signs with San Francisco

Two players from the Stony Brook University baseball team have begun their professional baseball careers after the 2026 MLB Draft took place in Philadelphia this week.

Senior left-handed pitcher Micah Worley was selected in the sixth round of the draft with the 177th overall pick by the Arizona Diamondbacks, while teammate Scott Gell signed as an undrafted free agent with the San Francisco Giants.

Worley is the 29th player in program history to be selected in the MLB Draft and the first Seawolf drafted since 2019, when Michael Wilson and Nick Grande were chosen in the 16th and 17th rounds, respectively. Wilson and Worley are the only two Seawolves to have been selected by the Diamondbacks.

A Missouri native, Worley is the highest-drafted Stony Brook player since Travis Jankowski and Pat Cantwell were selected in the first and third rounds of the 2012 MLB Draft, and was the first Stony Brook player invited to the MLB Draft Combine since 2021. He capped off an outstanding senior campaign by earning All-CAA Honorable Mention honors, and was named CAA Pitcher of the Week in consecutive weeks on April 13 and April 20 after recording 13 strikeouts over 7.2 scoreless innings at Hofstra and striking out 10 in eight scoreless innings at Monmouth.

Worley finished second in the CAA with 93 strikeouts, tied for the fifth-most in a single season in program history. Worley posted a 3.12 ERA, the third-best mark in the conference, while compiling a 6-5 record over 69.1 innings pitched. In conference play, he went 4-4 with a 3.29 ERA, recorded at least five strikeouts in nine starts, and held opponents to a .220 batting average.

Gell became the first Seawolf to sign as an undrafted free agent since Joe Meliors joined the Los Angeles Angels organization in 2010. A native of Connecticut, Gell was a key piece behind the plate for the Seawolves in 2026, making 38 starts across 44 appearances. He set career highs in nearly every offensive category, finishing the season with 25 runs scored, 40 hits, 10 doubles, three home runs, 35 RBI, a .303 batting average and a .377 on-base percentage.

Gell ranked fourth on the team in batting average, fifth in hits and second in both doubles and RBI. He recorded 11 multi-hit games and put together a 10-game hitting streak, one of five Seawolves to reach double figures in consecutive games with a hit. He also totaled nine multi-RBI games, second-most on the team, while throwing out 19 would-be basestealers behind the plate. Gell also earned CSC Academic All-District honors.

Over his three-year career at Stony Brook, Gell appeared in 80 games with 56 starts. He finished with a .286 career batting average (59-for-206) to go along with six home runs, 49 RBI, 38 runs scored, 14 doubles and a .371 on-base percentage.