I apologize if you have heard about this story already. It was news to me as I was reading Bob Nigthengale’s column this morning. Nightengale, in his latest column in USA Today wrote a nice story about Chicago White Sox starting pitcher Chris Sale. It revolved around the dominance of Sale and how he idolized Randy Johnson. That’s not the part that caught my eye. It was a little tidbit thrown in when discussing how it was that Sale ended up in Chicago.
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It was the fact that the Arizona Diamondbacks almost took him with the 6th pick of the 2010 Draft.