{"id":1823610,"date":"2026-07-12T20:16:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T20:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/?p=1823610"},"modified":"2026-07-12T20:16:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T20:16:51","slug":"grant-fontenot-selecionado-em-299o-lugar-geral-no-draft-da-mlb-pelo-kansas-city-royals-lsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/grant-fontenot-selecionado-em-299o-lugar-geral-no-draft-da-mlb-pelo-kansas-city-royals-lsu\/","title":{"rendered":"Grant Fontenot selecionado em 299\u00ba lugar geral no Draft da MLB pelo Kansas City Royals \u2013 LSU"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<div><!--[--><\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-html\">\n<p><strong>BATON ROUGE, La.<\/strong> \u2013 LSU right-hander <a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lsusports.net\/sports\/bsb\/roster\/player\/grant-fontenot\" title=\"Grant Fontenot\">Grant Fontenot<\/a> was selected No. 299 overall Sunday by the Kansas City Royals in the 10th round of the 2026 MLB Draft.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rounds 5-20 of the draft are being conducted on Sunday, and the draft may be viewed at MLB.com.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fontenot, a sophomore from Lafayette, La., was the fourth LSU player selected in the 2026 MLB Draft, joining outfielder <a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lsusports.net\/sports\/bsb\/roster\/player\/derek-curiel\" title=\"Derek Curiel\">Derek Curiel<\/a> (1st round, No. 5) by the Pittsburgh Pirates, outfielder <a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lsusports.net\/sports\/bsb\/roster\/player\/jake-brown\" title=\"Jake Brown\">Jake Brown<\/a> (2nd round, No. 65) by the Seattle Mariners, and right-handed pitcher <a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lsusports.net\/sports\/bsb\/roster\/player\/deven-sheerin\" title=\"Deven Sheerin\">Deven Sheerin<\/a> (4th round, No. 128) by the Philadelphia Phillies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am really proud of Grant&#8217;s development, especially this past year in 2026,\u201d said LSU head coach <a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lsusports.net\/staff\/jay-johnson-coach\" title=\"Jay Johnson\">Jay Johnson<\/a>. \u201cGrant has grown a ton here at LSU, and he is ready to take on Professional Baseball and will be highly successful. Grant&#8217;s best baseball is in front of him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fontenot, who pitched for the Tigers for two seasons, earned a National Championship as a member of LSU\u2019s 2025 squad. In 2026, he made 21 appearances and tossed 32.1 innings finishing his final season with a 4.18 ERA. Fontenot logged four starts and three saves while recording 42 strikeouts and 16 walks.<\/p>\n<p>He was named to the 2025 First-Year SEC Academic Honor Roll and received a nod from Perfect Game in 2026 naming Fontenot a Top-100 Senior (No. 83).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--]--><\/div>\n<p><em>  &#8216;O artigo anterior pode incluir informa\u00e7\u00f5es divulgadas por terceiros&#8217; <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>  &#8216;Alguns detalhes deste artigo foram extra\u00eddos da seguinte fonte lsusports.net&#8217; <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 O artigo anterior foi obtido e traduzido do site internacional da celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BATON ROUGE, La. \u2013 LSU right-hander Grant Fontenot was selected No. 299 overall Sunday by the Kansas City Royals in the 10th round of the 2026 MLB Draft.\u00a0 Rounds 5-20 of the draft are being conducted on Sunday, and the draft may be viewed at MLB.com.\u00a0 Fontenot, a sophomore from Lafayette, La., was the fourth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1823611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1823610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-realeza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1823610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1823612,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823610\/revisions\/1823612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1823611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1823610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1823610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1823610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}