{"id":750196,"date":"2026-07-13T00:36:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T00:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/750196\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T00:36:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T00:36:20","slug":"pittsburgh-pirates-select-former-wsu-raider-andrew-duncan-in-2026-mlb-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/750196\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Pirates select former WSU Raider, Andrew Duncan, in 2026 MLB Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">DAYTON \u2014 A former Wright State University (WSU) baseball player has been selected in the 2026 Major League Baseball (MLB) Draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">[DOWNLOAD: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whio.com\/mobile-apps\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.whio.com\/mobile-apps\/\">Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">The Pittsburgh Pirates picked Wright State outfielder Andrew Duncan in the 19th round of the 2026 MLB Draft on Sunday, according to a WSU spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">TRENDING STORIES:<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">He started in 53 of his 54 games in his only season with the Raiders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">Duncan hit .367 with 6 homers and 36 RBIs last season. He had 79 hits, including 25 extra-base hits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">He finished the season with eight triples and finished in a four-way tie to lead the nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">Duncan earned Horizon League First Team All-League honors and was named to the All-Tournament team. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">He previously announced that he was transferring to the University of Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">[SIGN UP: <a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.whio.com\/newsletters\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/membercenter.whio.com\/newsletters\">WHIO-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DAYTON \u2014 A former Wright State University (WSU) baseball player has been selected in the 2026 Major League&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[38386,93002,5,4,1586,93019,55350,93018,93017,12245,93016],"class_list":["post-750196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-2026-mlb-draft","tag-andrew-duncan","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-draft","tag-news-center-7","tag-whio","tag-whio-tv","tag-whiotv","tag-wright-state-raiders","tag-wsu-raiders"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116909872495419826","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750196","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=750196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}