Yahoo Sports senior MLB analyst Jake Mintz and senior MLB analyst Jordan Shusterman discuss the Chicago White Sox getting the #1 pick in the 2026 MLB draft and highlight top prospect Roch Cholowsky. Hear the full conversation on the “Baseball Bar-B-Cast” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.
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The White Sox entered the lottery with the best chances of getting the number 1 pick.
And that is exactly what happened, as for the first time since they took Harold Baines, Uh, many, many, many moons ago.
At the top, there, of course, is the finale to our #HashtagRobottom experience.
The teams trying to lose as many games, get the best draft lottery position to have the chance The opportunity to draft UCLA shortstop Rock Shawlowski, who is considered.
Uh, one of the better position-player prospects, um, that weve had come out of the draft in a Very long time.
He is a shortstop who is really Really good shortstop, and the dude can hit.
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He could have been a first-round pick out of high school.
He was like, you know what?
You know whats better than being first-round Pick first out of high school?
Its being the first pick out of college.
And it sure looks like Rock Shawlowski is training in that way.
And we have a long time before we get there, in July next.
You know, next year, but this will be fun to see if.
If he can actually hold it and go wire-to-wire here, because we haven’t really had someone like That.
Yeah, it really doesn’t.
And so, there are some other good players at the top.
Grady Emerson, high school shortstop from Texas, is, some say, the Rock’s new star player.
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Level, uh, but, uh, I don’t know.
It feels like the White Sox are a team that’s Probably gonna play this pretty straight.
We’ll see how Rock does in Big Ten play, which he opens up in Columbus, Ohio, in the first week of March.
I will be there.
I will be cold, but excited to watch Rock Chwalowski.