{"id":13012,"date":"2025-07-16T01:30:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T01:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/13012\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T01:30:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T01:30:05","slug":"two-former-border-cats-taken-in-mlb-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/13012\/","title":{"rendered":"Two former Border Cats taken in MLB draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Riely Hunsaker and Peyton Fosher both played for Thunder Bay in 2023. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\">THUNDER BAY \u2013 A pair of former Thunder Bay Border Cats are one step closer to realizing their Major League Baseball dreams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\">Riely Hunsaker, a right-handed pitcher from Peculiar, Mo., was taken in the 16th round, 481st overall, by the Chicago Cubs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\">Peyton Fosher, a right-hander from Tomball, Texas, was snagged three rounds later, 558th overall, by the Miami Marlins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\">Hunsaker was 1-1 with a 6.16 earned run average for the Border Cats in 2023. Fosher was 2-1 with a 4.24 ERA, also playing for Thunder Bay in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\">All told, 78 former Northwoods League players heard their names called in the 20-round MLB draft, led by Brendan Summerhill, who spent two seasons in the NWL, going 42nd overall to Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Riely Hunsaker and Peyton Fosher both played for Thunder Bay in 2023. THUNDER BAY \u2013 A pair of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-13012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}