{"id":662798,"date":"2026-05-11T18:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T18:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/662798\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T18:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T18:45:08","slug":"new-mock-drafts-out-yahoo-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/662798\/","title":{"rendered":"New mock drafts out – Yahoo Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

2026 MLB Draft: Baseball America has released their latest mock draft<\/a> \u2014 V.3.0 if you\u2019re keeping track at home \u2014 and they have the Texas Rangers<\/a>, at #16, selecting righthanded pitcher Cameron Flukey out of Coastal Carolina.<\/p>\n

Flukey is not someone who, coming into the season, would generally have been seen up to this point as being available when the Rangers pick. BA currently has him at #7 on their draft board<\/a>, while MLB Pipeline slots him at #13<\/a>. However, Flukey was sidelined earlier this year with a rib issue (BA says rib strain, MLB Pipeline says rib stress fracture), and has struggled in the few outings he has had since his return.<\/p>\n

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Interestingly, Keith Law has the Rangers taking University of Alabama shortstop Justin Lebron in his latest mock draft,<\/a> which came out last week, but also mentions Flukey as a possibility for Texas at #16, ultimately mocking Flukey to the Astros<\/a> at #17 (and marveling that Flukey might drop that far).<\/p>\n

Jim Callis, in his mock draft that dropped on Friday, also has the Rangers taking Lebron at #16<\/a>. Lebron profiles as a toolsy, true shortstop with four potential plus tools, and is currently #5 on the MLB Pipeline board. However, there are real questions about Lebron\u2019s hit tool, and he\u2019s slashing just .266\/.386\/.516 this seasonl albeit with an impressive 36 stolen bases in 37 attempts.<\/p>\n

The Rangers have gotten away from the tool sheds with questionable hit tools in recent years, so Lebron would be a bit of a surprise. College pitchers with injury issues, though, have been the Rangers\u2019 jam of late. Flukey is a guy with a four pitch mix and a quality fastball that he throws for strikes, and could move quickly. If he drops because of the rib injury, he would seem to be a fit with the Rangers at #16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026 MLB Draft: Baseball America has released their latest mock draft \u2014 V.3.0 if you\u2019re keeping track at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,244892,48,244893,462,18283,148577,244894,82,3992,170346,63158],"class_list":["post-662798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-cameron-flukey","tag-canada","tag-irish-pub-nagasaki","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-pipeline","tag-mock-draft","tag-nagasaki-prefecture","tag-sports","tag-texas-rangers","tag-the-astros","tag-the-rangers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}