{"id":15056,"date":"2013-06-18T14:41:49","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T21:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kentwood-high-catcher-reese-mcguire-signs-with-pittsburgh-pirates\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T15:20:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T22:20:34","slug":"kentwood-high-catcher-reese-mcguire-signs-with-pittsburgh-pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/kentwood-high-catcher-reese-mcguire-signs-with-pittsburgh-pirates\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentwood High catcher Reese McGuire signs with Pittsburgh Pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Recent Kentwood High School graduate Reese McGuire signed a professional contract Tuesday with the Pittsburgh Pirates.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;Officially a Pittsburgh Pirate,&#8221; McGuire posted on his Twitter account. &#8220;Couldn&#8217;t be more excited &amp; proud to be a part of this organization. Time to get to work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The Pirates chose McGuire, a catcher, with the 14th overall pick in the June 6 Major League Baseball draft. The 18-year-old received a signing bonus of $2.36 million, according to <a title=\"baseball\" href=\"http:\/\/www.baseballamerica.com\/draft\/2013-mlb-draft-signings-central\/\" target=\"_self\">Baseball America<\/a>. He attended graduation ceremonies Saturday at the ShoWare Center in Kent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The <a title=\"pirates\" href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20130618&amp;content_id=50995276&amp;vkey=news_mlb&amp;c_id=mlb\" target=\"_self\">Pirates held a news conference Tuesday at PNC Park<\/a> in Pittsburgh to introduce McGuire to the media. He will report to the Gulf Coast League Pirates in Florida, a rookie-level team.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;We are thrilled that Reese has joined the Pirates family and we are excited for him to immediately begin his career within our organization,&#8221; Pirates director of scouting Joe DelliCarri said in a statement posted on MLB.com.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>McGuire had received a college scholarship to play baseball at the University of San Diego, but decided to turn pro instead.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>He was named the 2013 Gatorade Washington Player of the Year. The 6-foot-1 McGuire batted .436 this season at Kentwood with four home runs and 20 RBIs. He throws right and bats left.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent Kentwood High School graduate Reese McGuire signed a professional contract Tuesday with the Pittsburgh Pirates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":15057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-15056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15056"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}