{"id":799886,"date":"2026-07-14T14:44:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T14:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/799886\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T14:44:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T14:44:26","slug":"whos-your-favorite-2026-mlb-draft-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/799886\/","title":{"rendered":"Who\u2019s your favorite 2026 MLB Draft pick?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">For some reason, the MLB Draft was over the weekend. But, it\u2019s over now. Lots of teams made lots of picks. Who was your favorite?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">I like to scan the draft tracker for things with even a vague personal connection, but there weren\u2019t many of those this year, and those are harder to come by with the shorter draft. The Rangers took a guy from the same small town-ish area as my brother-in-law, but it\u2019s not even the same school. Beyond that, I dunno. My sister went to and graduated from UCSB, but pretty much a billion draftees went to UCSB, so that\u2019s not particularly interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For some reason, the MLB Draft was over the weekend. But, it\u2019s over now. Lots of teams made&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[375436,64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-799886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-atlanta-braves-discussion","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799886","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=799886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}