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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Camels crash 1st round of MLB Draft

July 20, 2022 Brett Friedlander

Members of the Campbell baseball team fancy themselves as “a bunch of nobodies from nowhere” because of their remote location in Buies Creek and the considerable shadow cast by their nationally recognized neighbors at UNC, […]

Expanded MLB rosters give young players valuable time with big clubs

July 8, 2020 Brett Friedlander

The cancellation of this year’s minor league baseball season was a disappointing blow to many young prospects whose advance up the ranks toward a possible major league career has been put on hold for an […]

100 in 100: McDowell County’s Greg Holland, MLB’s ‘Dirty South’

June 8, 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 […]

100 in 100: Chatham County’s Greg Harris, Siler City’s curveballer

April 13, 2020 Brett Friedlander