{"id":395201,"date":"2026-07-12T00:48:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T00:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/395201\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T00:48:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T00:48:21","slug":"giants-kaden-waechter-taken-by-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/395201\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants’ Kaden Waechter: Taken by San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Giants<\/a> selected Waechter with the No. 55 overall pick in the 2026 First-Year Player Draft.<\/p>\n

The 6-foot-3 right-hander’s fastball sits around 93 mph and has the potential for more velocity as he fills out his frame, with the pitch already playing up a bit. Waechter also has a strong slider and continues to work on a cutter and changeup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This page may contain affiliate links. If you click and sign up, make a deposit, or place a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[17997,101,4820,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-395201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-fantasy-baseball","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395201","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=395201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}