{"id":754129,"date":"2026-07-17T11:42:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/754129\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T11:42:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:42:18","slug":"whats-behind-mets-surprise-draft-move-for-carson-wiggins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/754129\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s behind Mets&#8217; surprise draft move for Carson Wiggins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was some surprise around the sport when the Mets <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/07\/15\/sports\/mets-sign-top-mlb-draft-pick-carson-wiggins-to-3466500-signing-bonus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">selected Carson Wiggins<\/a>, who had thrown 14 total innings in two seasons at Arkansas and was coming off elbow surgery, with the 27th-overall selection in last weekend\u2019s MLB draft.<\/p>\n<p>The pick caught Wiggins\u2019 Razorbacks pitching coach off-guard, too, but for a different reason.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was surprised he lasted to 27,\u201d Matt Hobbs said over the phone this week. \u201cIf he was healthy and he\u2019d have pitched the whole season, he\u2019d have been a top-10, maybe a top-five pick.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt sounds like [the Mets] got a great deal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was some surprise around the sport when the Mets selected Carson Wiggins, who had thrown 14 total&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,6125,101,4,1586,1690,61,2548,4203,1274,185,428],"class_list":["post-754129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-mets","tag-baseball","tag-inside-the-mets","tag-mets","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-draft","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-mets","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkmets","tag-post-sports-newsletters","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116935140523152311","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754129","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=754129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}