Tyler Hallead signed a professional baseball contract with the Philadelphia Phillies organization Wednesday and nobody — seriously, nobody — saw that coming a year ago.

Not even Hallead, a 2013 graduate of Camas High School, could have envisioned such a scenario. After all, Tyler Hallead was not even playing baseball last year.

“It’s been a crazy ride,” Hallead said earlier this week, just before he departed for Florida to sign with the organization. The Phillies selected Hallead, a 6-foot-5, right-handed pitcher, in the 24th round of the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft on Saturday.

Hallead’s journey took him from Camas to Portland and then Las Vegas.

He played for Concordia in Portland for a season after high school. He got a few innings, but nothing special. He would play a season of summer ball in 2014 as kind of “one last ride,” he thought.

“At that point, I thought I was walking away forever,” Hallead said.

His parents had moved to the Las Vegas area. He wanted to be near them so he moved to Nevada, getting a job at the MGM Grand hotel.