An outcome we’ve been expecting for at least the better part of a year became a reality Sunday when the Chicago Cubs made Jordan Wicks the only first-round MLB draft pick in Kansas State history.
The school’s career strikeout leader with 230 in just 34 games went 21st overall as the first Big 12 player off the board. He was also the second left-handed drafted, only because Kansas City inexplicably took some guy no one had going until much later.
Wicks easily surpassed K-State’s previous best draft pick, shortstop Carter Jurica, who was selected 105th overall in the third round by the San Francisco Giants in 2010.