{"id":370793,"date":"2026-07-13T03:08:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T03:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/370793\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T03:08:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T03:08:26","slug":"diamondbacks-select-texas-am-outfielder-jake-duer-in-18th-round-of-2026-mlb-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/370793\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks select Texas A&#038;M outfielder Jake Duer in 18th round of 2026 MLB Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">(KBTX) &#8211; The Arizona Diamondbacks have selected Texas A&amp;M outfielder Jake Duer 536th overall in the 18th round of the 2026 MLB Draft at the Pennsylvania Convention Center on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In just one year with the Aggies, Duer hit .304 with a .406 on-base percentage and a .479 slugging percentage. He drove in 54 runs, scored 38 times and collected 13 doubles, two triples and seven home runs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He came through with multiple hits in 22 games and drove in multiple runs on 13 occasions. In the 2026 College Station Regional, Duer went 3-for-5 against the field with a double, a home run and six RBI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Before arriving in College Station, Duer notched a .345 career batting average, a .929 OPS, 82 RBI and 72 runs scored.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KBTX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(KBTX) &#8211; The Arizona Diamondbacks have selected Texas A&amp;M outfielder Jake Duer 536th overall in the 18th round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-370793","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\/370793","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=370793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}