In a year that Nick Hostetler, the White Sox director of amateur scouting, called the weakest crop of college pitchers he has seen in a long time, the Sox still loaded up on pitching.
After Day 2 of the MLB amateur draft, five of the seven pitchers the Sox drafted came from the college ranks, though none was taken higher than the fifth round.
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The Sox spent second- and third-round picks on high-upside (but inherently risky) high school pitchers Matthew Thompson and Andrew Dalquist.