{"id":797108,"date":"2026-07-12T13:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T13:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/797108\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T13:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T13:20:11","slug":"projecting-eta-to-the-show-for-top-2026-mlb-draft-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/797108\/","title":{"rendered":"Projecting ETA to The Show For Top 2026 MLB Draft Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">After Day 1 of the 2026 MLB Draft on Saturday, the road to &#8220;The Show&#8221; has already begun for 135 former college and high school players. And some have straighter, quicker routes than the others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">So, let&#8217;s estimate major league ETAs for the eight first-round draft picks who should move the fastest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">It should surprise nobody that this list is entirely populated by college talent. Every now and then, a Konnor Griffin comes along and makes a warp-speed jump from high school to the majors. For the most part, though, players coming out of high school need two or three years in the minors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">As for why these eight college players in particular are different from the rest, the short version is that they just have the goods. For the longer version, read on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After Day 1 of the 2026 MLB Draft on Saturday, the road to &#8220;The Show&#8221; has already begun&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-797108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797108","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=797108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}