{"id":1892222,"date":"2026-07-13T11:15:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T15:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1892222"},"modified":"2026-07-13T13:13:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T17:13:54","slug":"luke-nixon-drafted-by-the-san-francisco-giants-what-does-his-path-to-the-big-leagues-look-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1892222","title":{"rendered":"Luke Nixon drafted by the San Francisco Giants. What does his path to the big leagues look like?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luke Nixon, NC State\u2019s rock-solid second baseman and son of former Major Leaguer Trot Nixon, has been drafted by the San Francisco Giants in the fifth round (150th overall) of the 2026 MLB Draft. Bay Bound! Luke Nixon hears his name called by the @SFGiants in the 2026 MLB Draft! pic.twitter.com\/YZF0DY1WDr \u2014 NC State Baseball [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/packinsider.com\/2026\/07\/13\/luke-nixon-drafted-by-the-san-francisco-giants-what-does-his-path-to-the-big-leagues-looke-like\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke Nixon, NC State\u2019s rock-solid second baseman and son of former Major Leaguer Trot Nixon, has been drafted by the San Francisco Giants in the fifth&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1892222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-n-c-state-wolfpack","wpcat-81-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892222","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1892222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1892223,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892222\/revisions\/1892223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1892222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1892222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1892222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}