{"id":370058,"date":"2026-07-12T05:13:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T05:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/370058\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T05:13:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T05:13:29","slug":"tinney-picked-in-second-round-of-2026-mlb-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/370058\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinney picked in second round of 2026 MLB Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 University of Texas standout <a href=\"https:\/\/texaslonghorns.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/carson-tinney\/15056\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15056\" target=\"_blank\">Carson Tinney<\/a> was selected in the second round (No. 43 overall) by the Minnesota Twins in the 2026 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft on Saturday afternoon. With the pick, at least one Longhorn has been taken every year since the MLB draft began in 1965.<\/p>\n<p>Tinney became Texas&#8217; highest-drafted catcher since Brian Johnson went 32nd overall in 1988. The Longhorns\u00a0have now had a backstop hear their name\u00a0called in four of the last five drafts.<\/p>\n<p>A transfer from Notre Dame, Tinney made his presence felt in his lone campaign in burnt orange.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-4, 240-pound backstop blasted 22 home runs, the fifth-most by a Texas player in a single season.<\/p>\n<p>Tinney posted team-highs in OPS (1.171), walks (55), hit by pitches (12) and on-base percentage (.483), while tying for the club lead in runs scored (68).<\/p>\n<p>The D1Baseball Third Team All-American ranked second on the team in homers, RBI (58), total bases (150) and slugging (.688). Tinney batted .326 with 13 doubles and a career-best 10 stolen bases.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 NCAA Austin Regional All-Tournament honoree guided the Longhorns to their NCAA-best 39th trip to the Men&#8217;s College World Series.<\/p>\n<p>Defensively, Tinney won the ABCA\/Rawlings Gold Glove behind the plate. The junior registered a .992 fielding percentage. He converted 600 putouts and added 43 assists, while making just five errors.<\/p>\n<p>Tinney anchored a Texas team that allowed the fewest stolen bases (28) among all SEC programs. As the main batterymate for the Longhorns&#8217; pitching staff, the Castle Pines, Colo., native helped Texas notch the second-best FIP (3.28) and fifth-lowest WHIP (1.21) in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Across his three-year collegiate career, Tinney tallied a .326 average, 42 home runs, 120 RBI and a 1.165\u00a0OPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 University of Texas standout Carson Tinney was selected in the second round (No. 43 overall)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-370058","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\/370058","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=370058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}