{"id":164017,"date":"2026-02-04T20:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T20:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/164017\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T20:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T20:12:10","slug":"brewers-sign-former-angels-draft-pick-who-was-a-star-wide-receiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/164017\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewers sign former Angels draft pick who was a star wide receiver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/mlb\/milwaukee-brewers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> are taking a chance on a former high school baseball and football superstar.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ChrisCotillo\/status\/2018788919878602975?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chris Cotillo of MassLive<\/a>, outfielder Jordyn Adams signed a minor league contract with the Brewers. He was a first-round pick of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/mlb\/los-angeles-angels\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Angels<\/a> in 2018, turning down an opportunity to play both baseball and football at the University of North Carolina.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As a wide receiver at Blythewood High School in South Carolina, Adams had 54 receptions and 16 touchdowns his senior year. He went hitless in 10 plate appearances with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/mlb\/baltimore-orioles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Baltimore Orioles<\/a> in 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brewers&#8217; outfield depth\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Adams is a defense-first outfielder, using his speed to his advantage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Milwaukee places a lot of emphasis on athleticism and defense in the outfield,&#8221; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2026\/02\/brewers-agree-to-deal-with-jordyn-adams.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Anthony Franco of MLB Trade Rumors<\/a> wrote Tuesday. &#8220;Adams fits that role as a non-roster depth piece.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 83 career plate appearances with the Angels and Orioles, the 26-year-old has 30 strikeouts compared to just three walks.<\/p>\n<p>Adams may not make the Opening Day roster, but this will be a fun story to follow during spring training.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More MLB news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Milwaukee Brewers are taking a chance on a former high school baseball and football superstar.\u00a0 According to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-164017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}