Roch Cholowsky is getting paid.<\/p>\n
The No. 1 pick in the MLB draft is signing a record $10.35-million bonus with the Chicago White Sox<\/a>, Jim Callis of MLB.com’s MLB Pipeline reported<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n Cholowsky’s number breaks the previous mark of $9.3 million held by 2024 draftees Chase Burns and Charlie Condon.<\/p>\n A six-foot-two 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. He was the Big Ten Player of the Year.<\/p>\n The shortstop said on draft day he was thrilled he’ll be headed to Chicago, where he enjoyed a fruitful pre-draft meeting with team officials and mingled in the clubhouse of a team that has been perhaps the biggest surprise in baseball and entered the all-star break in first place in the AL Central.<\/p>\n \u201cIt really felt like to me like a college clubhouse,” Cholowsky said. \u201cIt\u2019s just a different feel in there.\u201d<\/p>\n –with files from The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roch Cholowsky is getting paid. The No. 1 pick in the MLB draft is signing a record $10.35-million…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-801688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}