PHILADELPHIA–Eight Aggies, highlighted by one in each of the first five rounds, heard their name called in this year’s MLB Draft.<\/p>\n
Click the names below for more detailed information on each:<\/p>\n
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Some notables on the Aggies’ highly-successful 2026 draft class:<\/p>\n
Eight or more players were selected in consecutive drafts for the first time since 2002-03.
\nFive players were selected in the top five rounds of the MLB Draft for the first time in program history.
\nChris Hacopian<\/a> became the highest-drafted position player in school history at No. 11 overall.
\nTexas A&M stands as the only program in the nation with three or more players selected in every MLB Draft since 2001.
\nSecond-year head coach Michael Earley<\/a> has seen 16 players drafted in his two seasons in Aggieland. This year’s group joins the 2025 draft class of Jace LaViolette<\/a>, Justin Lamkin<\/a>, Kaeden Kent<\/a>, Myles Patton<\/a>, Kaiden Wilson<\/a>, Wyatt Henseler<\/a>, Ryan Prager<\/a> and Luke Jackson<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA–Eight Aggies, highlighted by one in each of the first five rounds, heard their name called in this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-370630","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\/370630","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=370630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}