IOWA CITY, Iowa -- University of Iowa junior Blake Hickman was selected in the seventh round of the 2015 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft on Tuesday by the Chicago White Sox. The right-handed pitcher was the 202nd pick overall.
As a seventh round selection, Hickman is the highest Hawkeye draftee since 1999 when Wes Obermueller was taken in the second round with the 58th pick by the Kansas City Royals. Jake Yacinich was an eighth-round selection in 2014.
Hickman was a first-team All-Big Ten and third-team All-American as a junior, finishing 9-2 with a 2.