{"id":337339,"date":"2026-07-12T00:41:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T00:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/337339\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T00:41:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T00:41:22","slug":"marlins-cam-kozeal-selected-by-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/337339\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlins’ Cam Kozeal: Selected by Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Marlins<\/a> selected Kozeal with the No. 87 overall pick in the 2026 First-Year Player Draft.<\/p>\n

Kozeal went undrafted out of high school and started his collegiate career at Vanderbilt before transferring to Arkansas. He flourished with the Razorbacks and posted a .318\/.410\/.653 slash line and 20 homers in 62 games during the 2026 season. He has decent pop but isn’t likely to offer much upside on the basepaths.<\/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":337237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[32832,123,125,3822,124],"class_list":["post-337339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-fantasy-baseball","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-marlins","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}