WICHITA, Kan. – Wichita State baseball student-athlete Alec Bohm became the 15th Shocker drafted in the first round of the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft.
Bohm, a junior third baseman from Omaha, Neb., was drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies and was the third pick of the 2018 draft.
He is the second-highest position player drafted in school history. Joe Carter was the second pick of the 1981 draft. He is also just the fifth player in Shocker history to be taken in the first five picks joining Carter (2nd in 1981), Bryan Oelkers (4th in 1982), Darren Dreifort (2nd in 1993) and Braden Looper (3rd in 1996).