{"id":289453,"date":"2019-06-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/padres-select-shortstop-c-j-abrams-in-mlb-draft\/"},"modified":"2019-06-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T07:00:00","slug":"padres-select-shortstop-c-j-abrams-in-mlb-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/padres-select-shortstop-c-j-abrams-in-mlb-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres select shortstop\u00a0C.J. Abrams in MLB Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The San Diego Padres selected shortstop\u00a0C.J. Abrams\u00a0from Blessed Trinity High School (Ga.) with the sixth overall pick in MLB\u2019s 2019 First-Year Player Draft, executive vice president\/general manager\u00a0A.J. Preller\u00a0and director of amateur scouting\u00a0Mark Conner\u00a0announced on June 3.<br \/>\nRecommended by Padres area scout Tyler Stubblefield, Abrams, 18,\u00a0led Blessed Trinity High (31-9) to the Class AAAA semifinals this past season, hitting .431 with three home runs, 42 runs scored, 27 RBI and a .723 SLG. A 2018 Perfect Game All-American Classic team member and a 2018 Under Armour All-American Game invitee, the 6-2, 182-pound left-handed hitter is the nation\u2019s second-ranked prep prospect byBaseball America\u00a0and Perfect Game. The senior shortstop also slashed .297\/.395\/.324 in nine games for USA Baseball\u2019s 18U National Team this past fall.<br \/>\nThe Padres will make two more selections tonight with the 48th\u00a0and 73rd\u00a0overall selections. The draft will continue tomorrow at 10:05 a.m. with rounds 3-10 and will conclude on Wednesday, June 5, with rounds 11-40.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Diego Padres selected shortstop\u00a0C.J. Abrams\u00a0from Blessed Trinity High School (Ga.) with the sixth overall pick in MLB\u2019s 2019 First-Year Player Draft, executive vice president\/general manager\u00a0A.J. Preller\u00a0and director of amateur scouting\u00a0Mark Conner\u00a0announced on June 3. Recommended by Padres area scout Tyler Stubblefield, Abrams, 18,\u00a0led Blessed Trinity High (31-9) to the Class AAAA semifinals this [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":278064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"Padres select shortstop\u00a0C.J. Abrams in MLB Draft","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11551,11600,11553],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sdnews","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}