White Sox Shock with Top Pick Cholowsky | Irvine News

Presented by The Plant Daddies — rare specimen trees, living art, and hand-carved limestone vessels and fountains for extraordinary spaces. Showrooms in Los Angeles and Irvine. Listeners of Irvine News Today receive 10% off with code LANEWS10. theplantdaddies.com/lanews The Chicago White Sox stunned baseball by selecting UCLA shortstop Roch Cholowsky with the top pick, a 6-foot-2 powerhouse with 21 homers and 60 RBIs in his junior year, seen as a future Hall of Famer who could lead them to their first World Series since 2005. The Rays grabbed high school phenom Grady Emerson, the class’s best all-around talent, while the Twins took catcher Vahn Lackey, who rose from obscurity to elite status. All three stars skipped the Philly draft event — a first since MLB’s draft lottery gave the Sox the 1 pick for the first time since 1977, when they chose Harold Baines. Even the commissioner fumbled Cholowsky’s name — and now MLB’s pushing for mandatory attendance, with bonuses to make it happen. Listen in comfort:Get a discount on a Soli Pillow: http://solipillow.com/discount/dnn. Advertise on DNN:[email protected] This is an automated, high-level news summary based on public reporting.Report issues to [email protected]. View sources & latest updates:https://sources.thednn.ai/983e6d8c49c0e5ee