{"id":370653,"date":"2026-07-12T23:51:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T23:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/370653\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T23:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T23:51:15","slug":"mlb-draft-alert-diamondbacks-take-duer-in-18th-round-texas-am-aggies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/370653\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB Draft Alert: Diamondbacks Take Duer in 18th 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\/jake-duer\" title=\"Jake Duer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Duer<\/a> was selected by the Arizona Diamondbacks in the 18th round of the 2026 Major League Baseball Draft on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Duer is <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Dbacks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">@Dbacks<\/a> bound \ud83d\udc4d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5gEcg6OBKy\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/5gEcg6OBKy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Texas A&amp;M Baseball (@AggieBaseball) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AggieBaseball\/status\/2076430857363972279?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 12, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In his lone season in Aggieland, Duer slashed .304\/.406\/.479 with 54 RBI and 38 runs scored. He knocked 13 doubles, two triples and launched seven long balls in the Maroon &amp; White. The Flower Mound, Texas, native added 22 multi-hit and 13 multi-RBI performances during the 2026 campaign. Duer\u2019s most notable performance as an Aggie came in the 2026 College Station Regional with a 3-for-5 performance, including a double, home run and six RBI.<\/p>\n<p>Across a four-year collegiate career, Duer posted a .345 batting average and a .929 OPS with 82 RBI and 72 runs scored.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA&#8211;Texas A&amp;M outfielder Jake Duer was selected by the Arizona Diamondbacks in the 18th round of the 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-370653","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\/370653","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=370653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}