{"id":18926,"date":"2022-07-19T08:12:43","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T08:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/mason-mcgwire-son-of-former-st-louis-cardinals-slugger-mark-mcgwire-drafted-in-8th-round-by-chicago-cubs\/"},"modified":"2022-07-19T08:12:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T08:12:43","slug":"mason-mcgwire-son-of-former-st-louis-cardinals-slugger-mark-mcgwire-drafted-in-8th-round-by-chicago-cubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/mason-mcgwire-son-of-former-st-louis-cardinals-slugger-mark-mcgwire-drafted-in-8th-round-by-chicago-cubs\/","title":{"rendered":"Mason McGwire, son of former St.  Louis Cardinals slugger Mark McGwire, drafted in 8th round by Chicago Cubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>LOS ANGELES &#8212; The McGwire family is set to see the other side of things in one of baseball&#8217;s best rivalries.<\/p>\n<p>Mason McGwire, son of 12-time All-Star slugger Mark, was selected in the eighth round of baseball&#8217;s amateur draft by the Chicago Cubs on Monday.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/photo\/2022\/0713\/r1035925_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&amp;w=130&amp;h=130&amp;scale=crop&amp;location=center\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Mark spent five of his 16 major league seasons with the rival St.  Louis Cardinals, including the memorable 1998 season in which he and Cubs star Sammy Sosa raced to break Roger Maris&#8217; single-season home run mark.  McGwire ended up with 70 and Sosa with 66 before both of their reputations were tarnished amide steroid revelations.<\/p>\n<p>Mason is a right-handed pitcher out of Capistrano Valley High School in California.  The 18-year-old &#8212; born several years after Mark&#8217;s playing days ended &#8212; is committed to the University of Oklahoma, where his 19-year-old brother Max is an infielder.  There&#8217;s no indication yet if Mason plans to turn pro, but teams seldom use picks in the top 10 rounds on players they think are unsignable.<\/p>\n<p>Mark McGwire was also drafted in the eighth round out of high school in 1981 by the Montreal Expos as a first baseman and right-handed pitcher.  He opted to attend college at Southern California, where he led college baseball in home runs in 1984 before being chosen 10th overall by Oakland.<\/p>\n<p>Mason is one of several sons of big leaguers taken in this year&#8217;s draft, including the top two picks &#8212; Jackson Holliday, son of Matt, went first overall to Baltimore while Druw Jones, son of Andruw, went second to Arizona.  Justin Crawford, whose dad is All-Star Carl Crawford, was selected 17th overall by the Philadelphia Phillies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &#8212; The McGwire family is set to see the other side of things in one of baseball&#8217;s best rivalries. Mason McGwire, son of 12-time All-Star slugger Mark, was selected in the eighth round of baseball&#8217;s amateur draft by the Chicago Cubs on Monday. 1 Related Mark spent five of his 16 major league &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/mason-mcgwire-son-of-former-st-louis-cardinals-slugger-mark-mcgwire-drafted-in-8th-round-by-chicago-cubs\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mason McGwire, son of former St.  Louis Cardinals slugger Mark McGwire, drafted in 8th round by Chicago Cubs<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[3378,661,46,2502],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18877,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/cubs-select-mark-mcgwires-last-mason-in-mlb-draft\/","url_meta":{"origin":18926,"position":0},"title":"Cubs select Mark McGwire&#8217;s last Mason in MLB draft","date":"July 19, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Imagine Mark McGwire in a Cubs hat.The preposterous proposition came closer to reality on Monday when the Chicago Cubs selected McGwire's last Mason McGwire in the eighth round of the MLB draft. 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