Cubs pick pitcher Cade Horton, White Sox pick pitcher Noah Schultz from Aurora in MLB Draft
LOS ANGELES (CBS/AP) -- The MLB Draft started Sunday.
The Cubs had the seventh pick, selecting right-handed pitcher Cade Horton out of Oklahoma.
The 20-year-old racked up freshman All-American honors last season, with an ERA of 261 and 49 strikeouts.
Meanwhile, with the 26th overall pick, the White Sox went with a local left-handed pitcher.
Noah Schultz is from Aurora, and went to Oswego East High School.
"I don't want to say I didn't believe it, but I didn't ever picture myself being in this situation – and now that I'm here, it's truly a showing of all of my hard work and everything paying off," Schultz said. It's something that I never could have imagined. It's a dream."
The White Sox took a total of six pitchers. They snagged Peyton Pallette from Arkansas in the second round, and Jonathan Cannon from Georgia in the third.
In the 10th round, the White Sox took slugger Tim Elko, who propelled Ole Miss to a National Championship with a single-season record 24 home runs, MLB.com reported.
For their part Monday, the Cubs selected pitcher Mason McGwire out of Capistrano Valley High School in California – the son of longtime slugger Mark McGwire – in at No. 233 in the draft on Monday night. The elder McGwire terrorized the Cubs for years as a member of the St. Louis Cardinals – his race for the home run record against the Cubs' Sammy Sosa, of course, was a helped define the summer of 1998.
The Cubs added nine pitchers in total – also including second-rounder Jackson Ferris of IMG Academy in Florida. In the fourth round, the Cubs picked up pitcher Nazier Mule of Passaic Tech in New Jersey.
Pitchers Brandon Birdsell of Texas Tech, Will Frisch of Oregon State, Nick Hull of Grand Canyon University, Connor Noland of Arkansas, and Bordy McCullough of Wingate University were the other pitchers drafted by the Cubs.
For a slugger Monday, the Cubs picked Christopher Paciolla, a shortstop out of Temecula Valley High School in California.
The first 80 picks were scheduled for Sunday, when the draft was held outdoors for the first time at LA Live, its second year taking place in conjunction with the All-Star Game. The draft resumed on Monday, and 616 players in all were to be selected.