{"id":395178,"date":"2026-07-12T00:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T00:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/395178\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T00:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T00:14:11","slug":"san-diego-padres-select-robbie-lavey-in-fourth-round-no-124-of-2026-mlb-draft-padres-minor-league-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/395178\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Padres Select Robbie Lavey In Fourth Round (No. 124) of 2026 MLB Draft &#8211; Padres Minor League Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tNot that the San Diego Padres needed additional catching depth, but they went out and drafted another backstop.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWith the first of two fourth-round selections, the Padres selected George Washington junior catcher\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=lavey-000rob&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=padresmission.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-11_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robbie Lavey<\/a> with the 124th overall pick. The 6-foot-2, 215-pound left-handed hitter had a .339\/.462\/.526 slash line this season with 20 extra-base hits and 37 RBIs.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHis slot number is $620,300. Lavey is 20 years old.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tLavey does a lot of things very well, but nothing overly well. His best trait is his arm, which has been graded as 55 on the 20-80 scouting scale. He is a line-drive hitter who makes good contact and can drive the ball.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDefensively, he might need some work, but is a positive there more than a detriment behind the plate. The Padres have good catchers at every level, led by No. 1 prospect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=salas-000eth&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=padresmission.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-11_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ethan Salas<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/padresmission.com\/san-diego-padres-free-agents-trade-rumors\/mlb-draft-notes\/san-diego-padres-select-robbie-lavey-in-fourth-round-no-124-of-2026-mlb-draft-r237\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">View full rumor<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not that the San Diego Padres needed additional catching depth, but they went out and drafted another backstop.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[158888,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-395178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-robbie-lavey","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395178","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=395178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}