{"id":370855,"date":"2026-07-13T05:01:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/370855\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T05:01:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:01:24","slug":"mlb-draft-alert-freshcorn-chosen-by-cardinals-in-19th-round-texas-am-aggies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/370855\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB Draft Alert: Freshcorn Chosen by Cardinals in 19th Round &#8211; Texas A&#038;M Aggies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA- Texas A&amp;M right-handed pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/12thman.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/player\/clayton-freshcorn\" title=\"Clayton Freshcorn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Clayton Freshcorn<\/a> was selected by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 19th round of the 2026 Major League Baseball Draft on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Freshcorn complied a 2.82 ERA across 54.1 innings pitched while punching out a career high 56 batters against just six walks. The junior cemented himself in Texas A&amp;M record books with 12 saves on the year, tying for the third-most in a single season in program history. The Waller, Texas, native earned consensus All-America honors and was a finalist for the NCBWA Stopper of the Year Award following his dominant 2026 campaign.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fresh \u2192 STL \ud83c\udf3d\ud83d\udc4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nU57LJO1wf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/nU57LJO1wf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Texas A&amp;M Baseball (@AggieBaseball) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AggieBaseball\/status\/2076435261836099989?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 12, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>In two years in Aggieland, Freshcorn made 50 appearances and posted a 3.43 ERA. Across 81.1 innings pitched, he punched out 89 batters and earned 14 saves, tying for sixth-most in a career at Texas A&amp;M.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA- Texas A&amp;M right-handed pitcher Clayton Freshcorn was selected by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 19th round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-370855","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\/370855","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=370855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}