Chicago White Sox select UCLA shortstop Roch Cholowsky with No. 1 pick in MLB draft

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Expected to go as the first pick in the amateur draft, Roch Cholowsky submitted a video to Major League Baseball with the correct pronunciation of his last name. For the record, the name is pronounced chil-OW’-skee. Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred still botched the pronunciation of Cholowsky’s name at the podium Saturday when the Chicago White Sox indeed made the UCLA shortstop the No. 1 pick of the draft. No harm done, Cholowsky insisted. “I didn’t hear it get butchered,” Cholowsky said. “I heard Roch and kind of lost it.” 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. MLB said Friday that no amateur players were scheduled to attend the draft, just like last year. Cholowsky was thrilled he’ll 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 and entered Saturday in first place
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