MIAMI – The Miami Marlins tonight selected shortstop Aiva (pronounced eye-vuh) Arquette out of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Ore.) with the seventh overall pick in the 2025 First-Year Player Draft.
Arquette, 21, is ranked as the consensus top college position player in the 2025 class, the No. 5 overall prospect by Baseball America, and the No. 6 overall prospect by MLB Pipeline. The 6-foot-5 right-handed hitter led the Beavers in 2025 with his team-best .354 average (90x254) while setting career highs with 73 runs, 17 doubles, 19 home runs, and 66 RBI in 65 games. This season, he posted a 1.115 OPS, 153 wRC+, 16.5% strikeout rate and 12.6% walk rate.
The junior led the program to their eighth Men’s College World Series, opening the tournament with a nine-game hitting streak. In 11 games during the run, Arquette hit .360 (18x50) with three doubles, two home runs, and six RBI. In his first season at Oregon State, and his first season as a primary shortstop, he made all 65 starts at the position and posted a .974 fielding percentage.
The Kailua, Hawaii, native earned various national honors after his breakout campaign that saw him hit the fourth-most home runs in program history, including being named to Perfect Game’s All-America Second Team and Baseball America’s All-America Second Team. Additionally, he was named a Bobby Bragan National Collegiate Slugger of the Year Finalist, a Golden Spikes Award Semifinalist, and a Brooks Wallace Award Finalist, which is given to the nation’s top shortstop.
Arquette began his college career at the University of Washington, where he combined for a .311 average (79x254) with 14 doubles, one triple, 17 home runs, and 47 RBI in 63 games across two seasons from 2023-24, earning All-Pac 12 honors after his sophomore campaign. He also spent the 2024 summer with the Chatham Anglers of the Cape Cod Baseball League, slashing .291/.357/.427 (30x103) with 21 RBI and a .793 OPS.
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