{"id":2498243,"date":"2026-07-11T20:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T20:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2498243"},"modified":"2026-07-11T20:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T20:27:14","slug":"royals-select-mississippi-pitcher-taylor-rabe-with-the-30th-pick-in-the-2026-mlb-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/royals-select-mississippi-pitcher-taylor-rabe-with-the-30th-pick-in-the-2026-mlb-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals select Mississippi pitcher Taylor Rabe with the 30th pick in the 2026 MLB draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Rabe\u2019s fastball elicits plenty of chases, empty swings and groundballs thanks to its combination of velocity (averaging 96 mph, topping out at 100), carry, command and deception. Both his upper-80s cutter and mid-80s slider have improved over the course of the season, and they were untouchable when he struck out 13 in six shutout innings in a Southeastern Conference tournament start against Alabama. He hasn\u2019t shown much aptitude for an upper-80s changeup with some depth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">An athletic 6-foot-5, 200-pounder, Rabe repeats his delivery so easily that he issued just one unintentional walk to 79 batters faced a year ago before logging a 5 percent walk rate and ranking fourth in NCAA Division I with a 7.0 K\/BB ratio this spring. Not only does he pound the strike zone, but he\u2019s adept at working around the edges and rarely leaves balls over the plate to get pounded. One of the hottest college pitchers down the stretch, he could become a mid-rotation starter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.royalsreview.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rabe\u2019s fastball elicits plenty of chases, empty swings and groundballs thanks to its combination of velocity (averaging 96 mph, topping out at 100), carry, command and deception. Both his upper-80s cutter and mid-80s slider have improved over the course of the season, and they were untouchable when he struck out 13 in six shutout innings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2498244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[482514],"class_list":["post-2498243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-kansas-city-royals-mlb-draft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Royals-select-Mississippi-pitcher-Taylor-Rabe-with-the-30th-pick.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2498243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2498245,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498243\/revisions\/2498245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2498244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2498243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2498243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2498243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}