{"id":1891988,"date":"2026-07-11T15:19:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T19:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1891988"},"modified":"2026-07-11T16:54:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T20:54:56","slug":"red-sox-pick-schaffner-as-no-20-overall-pick-in-the-first-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1891988","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox pick Schaffner as No. 20 overall pick in the first round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jake Schaffner was selected Saturday by Boston Red Sox as the No. 20 overall pick in the first round of the MLB Draft, capping a season in Chapel Hill that paired elite on\u2011base skills with Gold Glove\u2011level defense and postseason poise. Schaffner, who was No. 75 on the Top 250 prospects list, arrived at UNC as a North Dakota State transfer and finished the year among the team leaders in batting average, on\u2011base percentage and stolen bases.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/07\/11\/no-title-copy\/\">Red Sox pick Schaffner as No. 20 overall pick in the first round<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\"><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/07\/11\/no-title-copy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jake Schaffner was selected Saturday by Boston Red Sox as the No. 20 overall pick in the first round of the MLB Draft, capping a season&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1891988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1891988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1891989,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891988\/revisions\/1891989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1891988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1891988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1891988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}