{"id":794460,"date":"2026-07-12T00:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T00:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/794460\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T00:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T00:07:09","slug":"north-carolina-righty-starter-is-pirates-3rd-round-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/794460\/","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina righty starter is Pirates 3rd round pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PITTSBURGH (93.7 The Fan) \u2013 Saturday\u2019s starting pitcher Bubba Chandler among the recent Pirates third round picks, with Pick 81 on Saturday, GM Ben Cherington selects North Carolina Tar Heels right-handed pitcher Jason DeCaro.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old is 6\u20195\u201d, 225 pounds and burst on the scene as a part of the UNC rotation as a freshman, but MLB.com says scouts aren\u2019t sure about him because his stuff may have leveled off. He doesn\u2019t have a power fastball, riding 91-94 per MLB.com but he sequences his pitches well and throws a lot of strikes. He was rated as the 133rd best pick.<\/p>\n<p>He went 11-3 in 19 starts in 2026 striking out 99 and walked 42 in 97.1 innings with a .239 batting average against and 2.87 ERA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH (93.7 The Fan) \u2013 Saturday\u2019s starting pitcher Bubba Chandler among the recent Pirates third round picks, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":794461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,4034,591,131896,5160,85],"class_list":["post-794460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-draft","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794460","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=794460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}