{"id":396039,"date":"2026-07-12T22:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T22:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/396039\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T22:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T22:57:11","slug":"reno-high-graduate-eric-nachtsheim-selected-in-sixth-round-by-san-francisco-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/396039\/","title":{"rendered":"Reno High graduate Eric Nachtsheim selected in sixth round by San Francisco Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reno High graduate Eric Nachtsheim was drafted Sunday in the sixth round of the MLB draft by the San Francisco Giants with the 179th overall pick.<\/p>\n

A 6-foot-4, 235-pound right-handed pitcher, Nachtsheim began his career at Mesa Community College in Arizona before spending the last two seasons at McNeese State. In 20 games (nine starts) last season, he went 8-4 with three saves and a 3.39 ERA, striking out 129 batters in 93 innings. Nachtsheim appeared in only three games for McNeese in 2025 before a huge senior season put him on the draft radar.<\/p>\n

Nachtsheim took part in the MLB draft combine in Phoenix last month and was listed among the day-two sleeper options give his size, ceiling and strikeout potential.<\/p>\n

MLB.com listed him as the No. 213 prospect<\/a> in this year’s draft, writing: “After going undrafted as a Nevada high schooler and then in two seasons at Mesa (Ariz.) CC and his first at McNeese State, Nachtsheim has emerged as one of the best college senior prospects in 2026. Though the Cowboys bounced him between closing and starting depending on team need this spring, he set a school record with 129 strikeouts in 93 innings and led NCAA Division I with 98 K’s via the heater. McNeese State’s best pitching prospect since 2005 first-rounder Jacob Marceaux, Nachtsheim finished the season by allowing just eight runs in five starts.<\/p>\n

“Nachtsheim’s fastball parks at 92-94 mph and peaks at 97 while featuring some of the best carry in the Draft, as well as some natural cutting action. He throws his heater three-quarters of the time, utilizing a lackluster low-80s slider as his main secondary option. His fading low-80s changeup works as a chase pitch, but he has trouble landing it in the zone and it often gets hammered when he does. Scouts don’t love Nachtsheim’s less-than-smooth delivery and arm action, though they don’t prevent him from filling the strike zone. He does create quality extension that adds to the deception with his fastball. While he’ll likely get the chance to show what he can do as a starter in pro ball, his long-term future almost certainly is as a reliever.”<\/p>\n

Nachtsheim was selected one pick after Nevada’s Aidan Brainard<\/a>, who went to the Texas Rangers with the No. 178 pick. Alex Overbay, whose father, Lyle, played at Nevada before a long MLB career, also was picked, going in the eighth round to the Pittsburgh Pirates at No. 288 overall. Overbay played for Arizona State last year after starting his college career at UNLV.<\/p>\n

Nachtsheim is the first Reno High alum selected in the MLB draft since Grayson Grinsell was picked by the Detroit Tigers in the sixth round in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reno High graduate Eric Nachtsheim was drafted Sunday in the sixth round of the MLB draft by the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-396039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","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\/396039","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=396039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}