{"id":369957,"date":"2026-07-12T01:58:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T01:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/369957\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T01:58:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T01:58:34","slug":"sam-houstons-ryan-peterson-selected-71st-overall-by-miami-marlins-in-mlb-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/369957\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Houston\u2019s Ryan Peterson selected 71st overall by Miami Marlins in MLB Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">(KBTX) &#8211; Sam Houston pitcher Ryan Peterson was selected by the Miami Marlins with the 71st overall pick in the 2026 MLB draft on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Peterson\u2019s selection came in the Competitive Balance B round. He is the highest-drafted Bearkat pitcher since Kevin Renz was picked 54th overall by the Detroit Tigers in 1984.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Peterson posted a 3.38 ERA this season and held opponents to a .236 batting average. The right-hander also recorded six wins and struck out 105 batters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Peterson was named first-team All-Conference USA and was a semifinalist for the National Pitcher of the Year Award by the College Baseball Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KBTX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(KBTX) &#8211; Sam Houston pitcher Ryan Peterson was selected by the Miami Marlins with the 71st overall pick&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-369957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369957","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=369957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}