{"id":180465,"date":"2023-07-19T09:37:56","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T19:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=180465"},"modified":"2023-07-19T09:37:56","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T19:37:56","slug":"casey-yamauchi-oakland-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/07\/19\/casey-yamauchi-oakland-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"Free agent deal with Oakland Athletics for former UH<\/abbr> Hilo shortstop"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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Casey Yamauchi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Former University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo<\/a> baseball player Casey Yamauchi signed a free-agent deal with the Oakland Athletics<\/a> organization on July 13.<\/p>\n

The former Vulcans shortstop had recently joined the MLB<\/abbr> Draft League as a member of the Frederick Keys (Maryland) roster.<\/p>\n

“The last few days during the draft, I was telling myself this is what I dreamed of since I was a little kid. This is everything I worked for, everything I wished for,” Yamauchi said. “To get the call today is even more sweet because I thought I was going to have to grind it out here to even get another opportunity.”<\/p>\n

The Hilo native wrapped up a five-year career with the Vulcans and graduated this past spring with a bachelor\u2019s degree in communication and kinesiology and exercise sciences.<\/p>\n

For more visit HiloAthletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UH<\/abbr> Hilo’s Casey Yamauchi was picked up by the Oakland Athletics organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[679,58,1491,14,151],"class_list":["post-180465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-alumni-recognition","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-uh-hilo","tag-hilo-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180465"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180493,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180465\/revisions\/180493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}