{"id":749158,"date":"2026-07-11T19:48:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T19:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/749158\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T19:48:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T19:48:36","slug":"chicago-white-sox-select-ucla-shortstop-roch-cholowsky-with-no-1-pick-in-mlb-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/749158\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago White Sox Select UCLA Shortstop Roch Cholowsky With No. 1 pick in MLB draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">The <a class=\"entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/chicago-white-sox-team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago White Sox<\/a> selected UCLA shortstop Roch Cholowsky on Saturday with the first pick of the <a class=\"entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLB<\/a> amateur draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">A 6-foot-2 right-handed hitter, Cholowsky was a Golden Spikes finalist at UCLA and had a 1.088 OPS with 21 homers and 60 RBIs in his junior season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">Cholowsky was a top prospect, who could have been selected high in the 2025 MLB amateur draft. Instead, he returned for a third season at UCLA, where he helped the Bruins become the first college baseball team to ever have an end-to-end season as the Associated Press No. 1 ranked team. The Bruins finished the regular season 48-6 overall (28-2 in the Big Ten), won the Big Ten tournament, and earned the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">That success, however, didn&#8217;t translate to the postseason as the Bruins couldn&#8217;t advance out of the Los Angeles Regional, falling twice to Saint Mary&#8217;s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">Still, Cholowsky&#8217;s college career is remembered for his accolades on the field, and the teammate he was off the diamond, captaining a UCLA team that largely stuck together in a college baseball era dominated by the transfer portal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">Tampa Bay picks second and Minnesota is third. San Francisco is fourth and Pittsburgh fifth. Kansas City, Baltimore, the <a class=\"entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/oakland-athletics-team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Athletics<\/a>, Atlanta and Colorado round out the top 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">The White Sox had the top selection for the first time since taking Harold Baines in 1977.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">The White Sox got the No. 1 pick after they lost 102 games last season and won the draft lottery and have pegged Cholowsky as a future star that can help them win their first <a class=\"entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/world-series\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Series<\/a> title since 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago White Sox selected UCLA shortstop Roch Cholowsky on Saturday with the first pick of the MLB&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[537,5,138,49,2561,19,4,5080,396,2562,1039],"class_list":["post-749158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-white-sox","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-chicagowhitesox","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-ucla-bruins","tag-white-sox","tag-whitesox","tag-world-series"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116903077773838397","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}