{"id":767608,"date":"2026-07-17T04:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T04:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/767608\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T04:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T04:29:13","slug":"kaiden-mccarthy-on-historic-mlb-draft-selection-all-of-vermont-is-supporting-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/767608\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaiden McCarthy on historic MLB draft selection: \u2018All of Vermont is supporting me\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CHESTER, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; Vermont Academy pitcher Kaiden McCarthy says \u201call of Vermont\u201d has been behind him since the Atlanta Braves selected him in the MLB Draft this past Saturday in a deal worth over two million dollars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcax.com\/2026\/07\/12\/mccarthy-drafted-by-braves\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wcax.com\/2026\/07\/12\/mccarthy-drafted-by-braves\/\">The Braves picked the 17-year-old 48th overall in round two of the MLB draft.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Friends and family gathered at his Chester home to watch the moment. He spent the past few seasons as Vermont Academy\u2019s ace, as well as throwing a few innings this summer with the Vermont Lake Monsters. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Now that he\u2019s made history, McCarthy says he needs to keep pushing on for more milestones. \u201cIt\u2019s awesome, pretty much all of Vermont is supporting me, and it\u2019s super great; I couldn\u2019t be more thankful for all of Vermont \u2014 small state &#8212; so I kind of gotta go out there, make history, show them what I\u2019ve got and everything,\u201d McCarthy said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">McCarthy is now one of two players from the state picked in the first five rounds \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcax.com\/2021\/07\/13\/kellington-selected-with-first-pick-4th-round-mlb-draft\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wcax.com\/2021\/07\/13\/kellington-selected-with-first-pick-4th-round-mlb-draft\/\">the Pirates picked former U-32 standout Owen Kellington in the 2021 fourth round.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCAX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHESTER, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; Vermont Academy pitcher Kaiden McCarthy says \u201call of Vermont\u201d has been behind him since&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-767608","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\/767608","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=767608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}