{"id":97343,"date":"2026-07-12T21:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T04:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=97343"},"modified":"2026-07-12T21:29:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T04:29:24","slug":"la-sernas-long-drafted-by-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=97343","title":{"rendered":"La Serna&#8217;s Long Drafted by Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1069\" height=\"1484\" src=\"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Jake-Long-La-Serna-Angels.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-97344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Jake-Long-La-Serna-Angels.jpg 1069w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Jake-Long-La-Serna-Angels-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Jake-Long-La-Serna-Angels-50x70.jpg 50w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Jake-Long-La-Serna-Angels-768x1066.jpg 768w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Jake-Long-La-Serna-Angels-108x150.jpg 108w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1069px) 100vw, 1069px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By Tim Peterson <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Whittier) &#8211; Jake Long, a two-sport star at La Serna has been drafted in the 13th round (pick number 379) of the MLB draft by the Los Angeles Angels. Long graduated from La Serna in 2023 before going on to Santa Ana College and then to the University of Utah. In 2026 as a junior at Utah Long hit .374 with 11 home runs and 58 RBI &#8211; the team leader in both categories.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tim Peterson (Whittier) &#8211; Jake Long, a two-sport star at La Serna has been drafted in the 13th round (pick number 379) of the MLB draft by the Los Angeles Angels. Long graduated from La Serna in 2023 before going on to Santa Ana College and then to the University of Utah. In 2026 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[871,12816,3,11059],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college","category-hsfootball","category-high-school-sports","category-baseball-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97345,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97343\/revisions\/97345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}