{"id":345048,"date":"2026-06-21T21:51:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T21:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/345048\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T21:51:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T21:51:16","slug":"texas-baseball-lands-outfielder-sawyer-solitaria-from-kent-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/345048\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas baseball lands outfielder Sawyer Solitaria from Kent State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Solitaria, who also played first base and third base as a freshman, hit .294 with a team-high 16 homers, 47\u00a0RBIs and 49 runs scored during his sophomore season.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-5, 225-pound outfielder also stole 11 bases in 13 attempts and was 7-for-15 at the plate with one homer and four RBI in games against Tennessee and LSU.<\/p>\n<p>He was named to the MAC\u2019s first-team all-conference team two years ago as that league\u2019s Freshman of the Year. He will likely play in the outfield alongside Anthony Pack Jr. and Jonah Williams and joins Saint Mary&#8217;s catcher Ian Armstrong and Texas Tech shortstop Linkin Garcia as probable starters next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Solitaria, who also played first base and third base as a freshman, hit .294 with a team-high 16&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-345048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}