{"id":751121,"date":"2026-07-14T01:24:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T01:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/751121\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T01:24:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T01:24:31","slug":"atlanta-braves-selects-uh-manoa-athlete-in-mlb-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/751121\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta Braves selects UH M\u0101noa athlete in MLB draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading time:   &lt; 1 minute<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/manoa-athletics-mlb-draft.jpg\" alt=\"Athlete giving shaka \" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-237266\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>University of Hawai\u02bbi at M\u0101noa utility player Ben Zeigler-Namoa has been selected by the Atlanta Braves in the 10th round of the 2026 Major League Baseball Draft, taken with the 292nd overall pick.<\/p>\n<p>Zeigler-Namoa becomes the 113th Rainbow Warrior all-time to be drafted by a Major League organization. He is also the seventh Hawai\u02bbi player to be picked during the tenure of Head Coach Rich Hill, continuing the program\u2019s strong pipeline to the professional ranks.<\/p>\n<p>A versatile left-handed hitter who played outfield and first base, Zeigler-Namoa was a model of consistency and durability. He was the only Rainbow Warrior to start all 50 games in 2026, earning Honorable Mention All-Big West awards. He finished the year with a .294 batting average and a .433 slugging percentage, racking up 57 hits, 33 runs scored, 10 doubles, a triple, and five home runs.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2026\/7\/12\/baseball-zeigler-namoa-selected-by-atlanta-braves-in-mlb-draft.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hawaiiathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reading time: &lt; 1 minute University of Hawai\u02bbi at M\u0101noa utility player Ben Zeigler-Namoa has been selected by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[38386,93176,51492,537,191,46,4166,5,57253,192,356,3931,57236,93177,1600,19,2291,4,1586,177,26434,10334,24485,26430,26428,93175,26437,51465,26427,51464,74508,8003,93178],"class_list":["post-751121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-atlanta-braves","tag-2026-mlb-draft","tag-all-big-west","tag-alumni-recognition","tag-athletics","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-atlantabraves","tag-baseball","tag-ben-zeigler-namoa","tag-braves","tag-draft","tag-first-base","tag-hawaii-athletics","tag-head-coach-rich-hill","tag-major-league","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball-draft","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-draft","tag-outfield","tag-rainbow-warrior","tag-rich-hill","tag-uh","tag-uh-athletics","tag-uh-manoa","tag-uh-manoa-atheltics","tag-uh-manoa-athletics","tag-uhm","tag-university-of-hawaii","tag-university-of-hawaii-at-manoa","tag-university-of-hawaii-manoa","tag-utility-player","tag-zeigler-namoa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751121","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=751121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}