{"id":370018,"date":"2026-07-12T03:43:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T03:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/370018\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T03:43:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T03:43:19","slug":"mlb-draft-alert-cubs-take-sorrell-in-2nd-round-texas-am-aggies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/370018\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB Draft Alert: Cubs Take Sorrell in 2nd Round &#8211; Texas A&#038;M Aggies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA &#8211; Texas A&amp;M outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/12thman.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/player\/caden-sorrell\" title=\"Caden Sorrell\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caden Sorrell<\/a> was selected 62nd overall by the Chicago Cubs in the second round of the 2026 Major League Baseball Draft on Saturday from the Pennsylvania Convention Center.<\/p>\n<p>In his final season in Aggieland, Sorrell started 55 of 56 games he appeared in and slashed .341\/.434\/.743 to go along with a team-best 20 doubles, 23 home runs, 76 RBI and 11 stolen bases. The junior recorded 23 multi-hit performances and led the team with 21 multi-RBI games and five multi-homer performances. His power production culminated with him becoming the first Aggie since 1999 to record at least 20 doubles and 20 home runs in a season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA &#8211; Texas A&amp;M outfielder Caden Sorrell was selected 62nd overall by the Chicago Cubs in the second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-370018","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\/370018","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=370018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}