{"id":174431,"date":"2025-07-14T02:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T02:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/174431\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T02:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T02:12:10","slug":"south-carolina-baseball-player-ethan-petry-selected-in-second-round-of-mlb-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/174431\/","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina baseball player Ethan Petry selected in second round of MLB Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Carolina baseball player Ethan Petry selected in second round of MLB Draft<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tUpdated: 10:01 PM EDT Jul 13, 2025\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJunior infielder\/outfielder Ethan Petry of the University of South Carolina baseball team was picked in the second round by the Washington Nationals on the first day of the 2025 MLB First-Year Player Draft on Sunday night (July 13).Petry played and started in 44 games for the Gamecocks in 2025, hitting .321 with 10 doubles, a triple, 10 home runs and 34 RBI. He scored 30 runs, had a .437 on-base percentage and a .590 slugging percentage. Petry had a 23-game reached-base streak from the end of 2024 to the first 16 games of the 2025 season. In his three-year career, Petry had 54 home runs, which is second on Carolina\u2019s all-time home run list. He was an All-SEC First Team selection and consensus Freshman All-American in 2023, when he hit 23 home runs and had 75 RBI on a Super Regional team.This is the highest a Gamecock has been picked in the MLB Draft since Carmen Mlodzinski was picked 31st overall by the Pittsburgh Pirates in 2020.The draft continues on Monday, July 14 with rounds 4-20, streamed on MLB.com\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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Junior infielder\/outfielder Ethan Petry of the University of South Carolina baseball team was picked in the second round by the Washington Nationals on the first day of the 2025 MLB First-Year Player Draft on Sunday night (July 13).<\/p>\n

Petry played and started in 44 games for the Gamecocks in 2025, hitting .321 with 10 doubles, a triple, 10 home runs and 34 RBI. He scored 30 runs, had a .437 on-base percentage and a .590 slugging percentage. Petry had a 23-game reached-base streak from the end of 2024 to the first 16 games of the 2025 season. In his three-year career, Petry had 54 home runs, which is second on Carolina\u2019s all-time home run list. He was an All-SEC First Team selection and consensus Freshman All-American in 2023, when he hit 23 home runs and had 75 RBI on a Super Regional team.<\/p>\n

This is the highest a Gamecock has been picked in the MLB Draft since Carmen Mlodzinski was picked 31st overall by the Pittsburgh Pirates in 2020.<\/p>\n

The draft continues on Monday, July 14 with rounds 4-20, streamed on MLB.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Carolina baseball player Ethan Petry selected in second round of MLB Draft Updated: 10:01 PM EDT Jul…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,648,5608,6392,32335],"class_list":{"0":"post-174431","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-college-baseball","10":"tag-ethan-petry","11":"tag-south-carolina","12":"tag-south-carolina-baseball"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114849169112968673","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}