{"id":628494,"date":"2026-03-17T17:22:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T17:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/628494\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T17:22:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T17:22:02","slug":"former-beal-city-grad-named-to-two-baseball-watch-lists-the-morning-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/628494\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Beal City grad named to two baseball watch lists \u2013 The Morning Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MOUNT PLEASANT \u2013 Former Beal City standout and current Central Michigan two-way baseball player Cayden Smith has been named to two national award watch lists for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, a 2024 Beal City graduate, is one of 100 players on the Brooks Wallace Award Watch List and one of 49 on the John Olerud Two-Way Player Award watch list.<\/p>\n<p>The Wallace Award is given annually to the nation\u2019s top shortstop, while the Olerud Award goes to the best two-way player in college baseball.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, a sophomore pitcher and shortstop, has appeared in 15 career games on the mound, posting a 3-3 record over 26.2 innings. At the plate, he has a .250 batting average with four home runs and 28 RBI in 60 career games.<\/p>\n<p>This season, Smith has recorded five hits and two RBI in 26 at-bats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MOUNT PLEASANT \u2013 Former Beal City standout and current Central Michigan two-way baseball player Cayden Smith has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2289],"tags":[5,648,1703,1694,2341,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-628494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-college-baseball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-college-baseball","10":"tag-college-sports","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-baseball","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116245675942161433","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628494","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=628494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}