The Chicago White Sox have selected UCLA shortstop Roch Cholowsky with the first pick in the amateur draft. Cholowsky, a 6-foot-2 right-handed hitter, was a Golden Spikes finalist at UCLA and had a 1.088 OPS with 21 homers and 60 RBIs in his junior season.
Cholowsky’s Reaction
Cholowsky was thrilled to be headed to Chicago, where he enjoyed a fruitful predraft meeting with team officials and mingled in the clubhouse of a team that has been perhaps the biggest surprise in baseball. “It really felt like to me like a college clubhouse,” Cholowsky said. “It’s just a different feel in there.”
Cholowsky burst into tears at a draft party far from the Philadelphia site of the draft. He led off the lineup of MLB draft prospects who did not show up at the city’s convention center, just a few miles away from Citizens Bank Park, the home of Tuesday’s All-Star Game.
Other Draft Picks
The next two picks went about as widely predicted. Tampa Bay selected Texas high school shortstop Grady Emerson with the second pick and Minnesota took Georgia Tech catcher Vahn Lackey third.
The rest of the top 10 picks included San Francisco selecting right-handed pitcher Jackson Flora out of UC Santa Barbara with the No. 4 pick, the Pirates taking outfielder Derek Curiel from LSU with the fifth pick, and Louisville outfielder Zion Rose going sixth to Kansas City.
Original reporting: KSAT Sports (San Antonio) — read the source article.
