{"id":242070,"date":"2026-07-13T08:37:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T08:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/242070\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T08:37:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T08:37:19","slug":"pirates-draft-picks-full-list-of-2026-selections-by-pittsburgh-in-20-round-mlb-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/242070\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates draft picks: Full list of 2026 selections by Pittsburgh in 20-round MLB Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billy Heyen is a freelance writer with SportsNet Pittsburgh He is a 2019 graduate of Syracuse University who spent his senior year following Jim Boeheim&#8217;s basketball team around the country. His reporting work has also included extensive high school sports coverage at the Sandusky Register and Rochester Democrat &amp; Chronicle. Adventures in sports writing have also led to in-person coverage of the Buffalo Sabres, Cleveland Guardians, U.S. men&#8217;s national soccer team and a variety of minor league baseball stories. When people ask if he&#8217;s seen a movie, the answer is usually &#8220;No, I was probably watching sports.&#8221; Even away from sports, his main hobby is running (much slower than any athlete in these pages).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Billy Heyen is a freelance writer with SportsNet Pittsburgh He is a 2019 graduate of Syracuse University who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-242070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242070","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=242070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}