{"id":111412,"date":"2025-09-01T18:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T18:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/111412\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T18:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T18:55:07","slug":"mariners-promote-top-catching-prospect-harry-ford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/111412\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariners promote top catching prospect Harry Ford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. &#8212; Top catching prospect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4872682\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Ford<\/a> was promoted to the major leagues on Monday by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/sea\/seattle-mariners\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Mariners<\/a> as active rosters expanded to 28.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old hit .283 with 16 homers, 74 RBI, seven steals, 74 walks and an .868 OPS in 97 games for Triple-A Tacoma. He was ranked the No. 40 prospect overall by MLB Pipeline and No. 4 in the organization.<\/p>\n<p>Ford was the No.12 overall pick in the 2021 amateur draft from North Cobb High School in Kennesaw, Georgia and signed for a $4,366,400 bonus, which was slot value.<\/p>\n<p>He has a .266 average with 52 homers, 261 RBI, 92 steals and .832 OPS over five minor league seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Atlanta to British parents, Ford helped Britain qualify for the 2023 World Baseball Classic and homered twice in the WBC group stage.<\/p>\n<p>He becomes the fifth first-round pick from consecutive drafts on the Mariners&#8217; active roster, joining right-handers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/41221\/logan-gilbert\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Logan Gilbert<\/a> (2018), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/42406\/george-kirby\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">George Kirby<\/a> (2019) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4297897\/emerson-hancock\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emerson Hancock<\/a> (2020), and infielder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/5080641\/cole-young\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cole Young<\/a> (2022).<\/p>\n<p>Seattle selected the contracts of Ford and right-hander Luke Jackson from Tacoma, recalled infielder Leo Rivas from the Raniers, designated right-hander Sauryn Lao for assignment and released infielder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/29703\/donovan-solano\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donovan Solano<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. &#8212; Top catching prospect Harry Ford was promoted to the major leagues on Monday by the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-111412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}