Cincinnati Reds

MLB teams look to N.C. in Draft

July 25, 2025 Shawn Krest

Wake Forest may have grabbed the spotlight early in last week’s MLB Draft, but the rest of the state’s baseball talent was eventually uncovered. At press time last week, three rounds had been completed. A […]

NC produces over 50 MLB picks

August 2, 2024 Shawn Krest

Major League Baseball reached out to its next generation of players with the 20-round MLB Draft, last week in Texas. As we reported last week, Wake Forest took center stage in the first round, with […]

Wake makes MLB Draft history

August 2, 2024 Shawn Krest

The Cowtown Coliseum is normally home to rodeo events as the premiere attraction of the Fort Worth Stockyards, but, as host of the 2024 MLB Draft, it became Winston-Salem West. Wake Forest was the consensus […]

Rhett Lowder heads to Futures Game

July 12, 2024 Shawn Krest

The MLB All-Star Break will get started with the All-Star Futures Game on Saturday, in Arlington, Texas. The annual contest gives fans a look at tomorrow’s stars, bringing together the top minor league prospects in […]

Walter Jenkins, 2 Deacons picked in 1st round of MLB Draft

July 12, 2023 Cory Lavalette

While the story of the first day of the Major League Baseball Draft was LSU teammates Paul Skenes and Dylan Crews going 1-2 to the Pirates and Nationals, respectively, North Carolina also made some noise […]

No. 4 Cincinnati survives challenge from ECU

November 26, 2021 Shawn Krest

For one quarter, East Carolina appeared to be ready to render all the debate over Cincinnati moot. The Bearcats entered the game at 11-0 on the season and occupied spot No. 4 in the most […]

Hall of Fame pitcher Tom Seaver dead at 75

September 2, 2020 The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Tom Seaver, the galvanizing leader of the Miracle Mets 1969 championship team and a pitcher who personified the rise of expansion teams during an era of radical change for baseball, has died. […]

100 in 100: Rockingham County’s Scott Bankhead, decade-long major leaguer

July 6, 2020 Brett Friedlander

North State Journal’s 100 in 100 series will showcase the best athlete from each of North Carolina’s 100 counties. From Alamance to Yancey, each county will feature one athlete who stands above the rest. Some […]

Josh Hamilton in more trouble, indicted in alleged beating of 14-year-old daughter

April 9, 2020 The Associated Press

FORT WORTH, Texas — Josh Hamilton, the Raleigh native who was the first overall pick in the Major League Baseball Draft and mixed success on the field with troubles off it, has been indicted on […]

100 in 100: Caswell County’s Carl Willis, World Series pitcher and top pitching coach

April 9, 2020 Brett Friedlander