One Missouri High School Has Two Alumni on 2025 MLB Rosters

It is extremely difficult to make it to the top level of any professional sport. There is one high school in Missouri that has former students playing professionally at the highest level of baseball.

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There are currently 12 players on MLB 40-man rosters from Missouri. But only one Missouri high school has multiple players at the highest level of American baseball. Christian Brothers College High School in St. Louis.

CBC has had NFL, NBA, NHL, Olympic athletes and several MLB players walk the halls and attend class over the years before they ascended to professional sports. In 2014 there were two future Major League Baseball players wearing a Cadets uniform and somehow they lost in district play to Parkway Central.

Jake Burger - Texas Rangers

Jake Burger graduated CBC in 2014 and played at Missouri State in college, then was a first round draft pick in 2017 by the Chicago White Sox. He was traded to the Marlins in 2023 and was then shipped to Texas to play for the Rangers last season.

Matt Vierling - Detroit Tigers

Matt Vierling went on to win the 2015 Class 5 Missouri State Baseball championship at CBC in his senior year. Vierling was then drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 30^th round in 2015, but he decided to attend Notre Dame instead. The Philadelphia Phillies drafted him in the fifth round of the 2018 draft. In 2023 he was traded to Detroit and is still on the Tigers roster coming off a recent injury.