Will the White Sox select Roch Cholowsky with the No. 1 overall pick?
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Who is Roch Cholowski and why is he a top pick?
Rahimi Harrison-Grody.
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Middays 10 to 2 on 104.3 The Score. First pitch, this one sent over towards left field, and unable to make the grab is Williams. One run will score for UCLA, and Rock Cholowski is able to give UCLA the lead for the first time today after the Bruins were down eight runs in the sixth and seventh inning of the season.
That is courtesy of Big Ten Network. That is a man that we have our eye on. And so White Sox have the first overall pick, the 1-1, in the 2026 MLB Amateur Player Draft, Rock Cholowski. Now let's rewind to Bob Nightingale's column last Sunday. The Bob Nightingale, ease into your Sunday, drop news bombs in the middle of the column, and then everybody tries to figure out what it means for the rest of the week. Not that I'm mad. Fired already? MLB's best managers know unfairness comes with a job. Now, this is something that we talked about a little bit differently. The Athletic also did a column on that when it came to just how bad it is right now to be a major league manager. But in that is the real devil in the details, the around the base pass.
And that's where all the action happens.
Touch first base, second base, third base. Oh, wait, did you see this news along the way? Somewhere between second and third? Oh, shortstop.
It's not a Woj bomb. It's like a sleeper that just comes out of nowhere. And this is on the 26th. The Chicago White Sox remain uncertain who they will draft with the number one pick in July and insist that they have not committed to taking UCLA shortstop Brock Cholowski, the consensus top player in the draft. Consensus has been an operative word lately. Not just in the NFL draft, but in Major League Baseball. Consensus. So like the average of everybody who's an expert pretty much saying this is the dude. It's also unclear, several executives say, whether the White Sox are Cholowski's top preference. So nobody's committed to anyone. That's what I take out of this. One GM whose team drafts in the top five believes there is still a chance Cholowski falls to them.
I think that GM, by the way, is Buster Posey.
That makes sense. Right? That's the area. That's the West Coast. He's got an eye on what's going on. Just a short plane ride away in L.A. I feel like... Where UCLA's undefeated in Big Ten play and Rock Jalowski's putting up a year that looks very much like his year last year, which was dominant.
Now, fast forward to how this has been interpreted and discussed throughout the week. And... It's as simple as this is a report. People have opinions about it. We're going to talk about it. That's how this works. It's an interesting news item. Around the Foghorn, which is the fan-sided blog that covers the Giants, has this headline 17 hours ago. White Sox incompetence could allow Vallejo native to fall to San Francisco Giants in the Major League Baseball drafts.
What did Bob Nightingale report about the White Sox draft strategy?
That Vallejo native is Rock Chalaski, just in case you were curious. So the Giants have the number four overall pick. Now, the Giants need infielders. You know this. Let's rewind to that whole Nico Horner is interesting to the Giants moment that happened right before his extension. But this has taken on a bigger discussion about, is it simply the White Sox don't want to telegraph who they want to pick first overall? Or is it that this is a perhaps Reinsdorfian negotiation and that Jerry likes to exercise options? We've seen that a time or two.
Jerry Reinsdorf or Jerry Jones? Are we talking about the same person here?
When I say Reinsdorfian, I do intend to mean Jerry Reinsdorf.
I got you. But the similarity there was...
Then there's Jerry Jones math, which is so that's improvement. Like Jerry meeting with the Nashville mayor, for example, or, you know, even going back to Rob Manfred being named Major League Baseball commissioner. He brings up another candidate in the Red Sox owner. So it has happened where they just don't immediately commit to people.
I saw this news. This was last week, right, when this all came to be?
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
Who is Roch Cholowski and why is he a top pick?
0:01–3:11
2
What did Bob Nightingale report about the White Sox draft strategy?
3:11–8:18
3
How do executives view the White Sox's interest in Cholowski?
8:18–13:42
4
What factors influence the White Sox's decision on the number one pick?
13:42–15:20
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