{"id":218679,"date":"2025-07-15T13:03:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T23:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=218679"},"modified":"2025-07-15T14:33:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T00:33:19","slug":"rainbow-warriors-selected-mlb-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/07\/15\/rainbow-warriors-selected-mlb-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Base Bows selected in the <abbr>MLB<\/abbr> Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_218684\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-218684\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/manoa-mlb-draft.jpg\" alt=\"Matthew Miura, Itsuki Takemoto, Freddy Rodriquez\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-218684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/manoa-mlb-draft.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/manoa-mlb-draft-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/manoa-mlb-draft-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-218684\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew Miura, Itsuki Takemoto and Freddy Rodriguez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Three former University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/baseball\">baseball<\/a> players, Matthew Miura, Itsuki Takemoto and Freddy Rodriquez, were selected in the 2025 <abbr title=\"Major League Baseball\">MLB<\/abbr> Draft, marking the program\u2019s biggest draft class since 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Miura, a second-team All-Big West pick, was drafted by the <abbr title=\"Saint\">St.<\/abbr> Louis Cardinals in the sixth round, and became the highest <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa draft selection since 2020. He started 107 games in center field over the past two seasons, hitting .311 for his career.<\/p>\n<p>Takemoto, a two-way All-Big West standout, was selected by the Oakland Athletics in the 19th round, and Rodriguez, who finished his season at <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa with 52 strikeouts, was drafted by the Chicago Cubs in the 20th round.<\/p>\n<p>The three Rainbow Warriors represent the most <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa baseball players drafted in a single year since <abbr>MLB<\/abbr> shortened the draft to 20 rounds.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2025\/7\/14\/baseball-three-rainbow-warriors-selected-in-mlb-draft.aspx\">Hawaiiathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Miura, Itsuki Takemoto and Freddy Rodriguez represent the program\u2019s biggest draft class since 2015. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":218684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,1491,9,550],"class_list":["post-218679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/manoa-mlb-draft.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218679"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218726,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218679\/revisions\/218726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}