{"id":241205,"date":"2026-07-11T20:56:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T20:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/241205\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T20:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T20:56:17","slug":"philadelphia-phillies-select-tyler-spangler-with-their-first-round-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/241205\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Phillies select Tyler Spangler with their first round pick"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the first time in the history of the MLB Draft, the Philadelphia Phillies made their first-round pick in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

With the 36th overall pick<\/a> the Phillies selected Tyler Spangler from De La Salle high school in the Bay area of California in front of a Philadelphia Convention Center crowd.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He’s a 6’3″, 195 lb lefty hitting shortstop.\u00a0 As a junior, Spangler was named as the Metro Player of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle. He was projected to be a first-round pick before a lower back stress reaction took him out for most of his senior season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The situation is reminiscent of when the Phillies drafted Aidan Miller 27th overall in 2023.\u00a0 Miller fell down draft boards because of a broken hamate bone and a missed senior season.\u00a0 Spangler is the first high school infielder that the Phillies have drafted in the first round since Miller.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Spangler won’t turn 19 years old until October, but already has a solid approach at the plate. He could grow into above average power, especially for a shortstop.\u00a0 His size could move him off of shortstop but reports say he has the athleticism<\/a> to have a shot at sticking at the position.\u00a0 He’s said to have average speed but great instincts.\u00a0<\/p>\n

MLB.com’s rankings had Spangler listed as the 53rd best draft prospect. FanGraph’s “The Board” had him listed at 50th.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Phillies will next select at #64 in the second round. They’ll have five more picks through the fifth round.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time in the history of the MLB Draft, the Philadelphia Phillies made their first-round pick…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[31271,69,71,70,8740,103568],"class_list":["post-241205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-mlb-draft","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-phillies","tag-tyler-spangler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}