{"id":797195,"date":"2026-07-12T14:21:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T14:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/797195\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T14:21:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T14:21:24","slug":"blue-jays-select-cooney-in-third-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/797195\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays Select Cooney in Third Round"},"content":{"rendered":"

EUGENE, Ore. \u2013 The Toronto Blue Jays selected Oregon infielder Ryan Cooney<\/a> in the third round on day one of the Major League Baseball Draft on Saturday.
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\nCooney was the 103rd overall pick, the sixth highest selection of a position player in the modern era of Oregon Baseball. He was picked 11 spots higher than Mason Neviille, who went 114th overall to the Cincinnati Reds in last year’s draft, and three spots behind Ryon Healy, the 100th-overall pick in 2013 draft. He is also the 11th-highest Ducks’ draft pick in the modern era, behind first-round picks Tyler Anderson (2011) and David Peterson (2017); second-round picks Aaron Zavala (2021), Ryne Nelson (2019), Josh Kasevich (2022) and Madison Boer (2011); and third-round picks Spencer Steer (2019), Sabin Ceballos (2023), Healy, and Garrett Cleavinger (2015).
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\nCooney is the second Ducks’ player selected by the Blue Jays and is the fifth Oregon player picked in the third round of the MLB Draft.
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\nRyan Cooney<\/a>, JR, SS (Toronto Blue Jays, 3rd Round, 103rd Overall Pick)<\/p>\n


\n\tSecond Oregon player ever drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays
\n\t11th-highest MLB Draft pick of an Oregon player in the modern era
\n\tSixth-highest Oregon position player picked in the modern era (Aaron Zavala \u2013 No. 38 in 2021, Josh Kasevich \u2013 No. 60 in 2022, Spencer Steer \u2013 No. 90 in 2019, Sabin Ceballos \u2013 No. 97 in 2023, Ryon Healy \u2013 No. 100 in 2013)
\n\t78th Duck drafted since 2009
\n\t2026 Just Baseball Second-Team All-America
\n\t2026 ABCA\/Rawlings Second-Team All-Region – West
\n\t2026 Eugene Regional All-Tournament Team
\n\t2026 Second-Team All-Big Ten Conference
\n\t2025 First-Team All-Big Ten Conference
\n\t3x Big Ten Conference Player of the Week
\n\tBaseball American National Team of the Week
\n\tLas Vegas College Baseball All-Tournament Team <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EUGENE, Ore. \u2013 The Toronto Blue Jays selected Oregon infielder Ryan Cooney in the third round on day…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-797195","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\/797195","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=797195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}