{"id":246383,"date":"2026-07-18T03:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T03:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/246383\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T03:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T03:26:12","slug":"pirates-draft-signings-6-picks-make-it-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/246383\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates Draft Signings: 6 Picks Make it Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"300\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MLB-Draft.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium tpd-force-16x9-aspect-ratio wp-post-image\" alt=\"2026 MLB Draft, Pittsburgh Pirates\" decoding=\"sync\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Pirates announced their first slew of draft pick signings with six players selected from rounds 5-10 making things official.<\/p>\n<p>LHP Ryan Marohn, North Carolina State (5th Round)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Baseball America ranked Marohn 90th overall on their draft board and MLB Pipeline had him No. 149. The 21-year-old  went 6-1 with a 3.18 ERA and 62 strikeouts in 45.1 innings across eight starts as a junior for North Carolina State. Marohn earned preseason All-American honors.<\/p>\n<p>RHP Tyler Fay, Alabama (6th Round)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fay, who Baseball America had as the 140th-best draft prospect in this year\u2019s class (229th by Pipeline), went 11-5 with a 4.54 ERA and 127 strikeouts in 109 innings across 18 starts with Alabama as a redshirt junior and helped lead Alabama to a College World Series appearance. The 22-year-old threw a no-hitter against Florida on March 20. <\/p>\n<p>RHP Bryson Moore, Florida State (7th Round)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moore went 6-2 with a 3.86 ERA and struck out 65 batters in 67.2 innings across 14 starts during his junior season at Florida State. The 21-year-old began his collegiate career at Virginia before transferring to the Seminoles at the start of last year.<\/p>\n<p>RHP Alex Overbay, Arizona State (8th Round)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After starting his career at UNLV, Overbay transferred to Arizona State last year and went 1-3 with a 5.79 ERA and one save with 50 strikeouts in 42 innings during his junior season. The 21-year-old is the son of former Pirates first baseman Lyle Overbay.<\/p>\n<p>3B Tre Phelps III, Georgia (9th Round)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Phelps fell to the Pirates in the ninth round despite being considered the 121st-best prospect by Pipeline and the 124th-best by Baseball America. The 22-year-old was an All-SEC First-Team selection and slashed .348\/.648\/.628 with 19 home runs, 59 RBIs and eight stolen bases in 65 games. He was also named to the conference\u2019s All-Defensive team.<\/p>\n<p>RHP Michael Gibson, The Citadel (10th Round)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gibson was named a second-team All-American by D1 Baseball and a third-team selection by Perfect Game. The 22-year-old went 5-2 with a 5.26 ERA, 10 saves and 73 strikeouts in 53 innings across 21 appearances\/four starts for The Citadel. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMentioned in this article: <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghbaseballnow.com\/tag\/alex-overbay\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Overbay<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghbaseballnow.com\/tag\/bryson-moore\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bryson Moore<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghbaseballnow.com\/tag\/michael-gibson\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Gibson<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghbaseballnow.com\/tag\/pittsburgh-pirates\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghbaseballnow.com\/tag\/ryan-marohn\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Marohn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghbaseballnow.com\/tag\/tre-phelps-iii\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tre Phelps III<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghbaseballnow.com\/tag\/tyler-fay\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyler Fay<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"categories single-categories\">More about:<a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghbaseballnow.com\/pittsburgh-pirates\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pirates<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pirates announced their first slew of draft pick signings with six players selected from rounds 5-10 making&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[105456,105457,105458,73,75,74,10997,105459,105460,105461],"class_list":["post-246383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-alex-overbay","tag-bryson-moore","tag-michael-gibson","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-ryan-marohn","tag-tre-phelps-iii","tag-tyler-fay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246383","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=246383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}