{"id":23520,"date":"2025-12-10T09:32:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=23520"},"modified":"2025-12-10T09:32:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:32:32","slug":"everythings-coming-up-jerry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/everythings-coming-up-jerry\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything’s Coming Up Jerry"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>For the first time since 1977, the White Sox will have the top overall pick in next July’s MLB draft.\u00a0 Despite having the second worst record in baseball in 2025, the White Sox entered last night’s draft lottery with the best chance at the #1 pick, as the Rockies were ineligible for a top-nine pick due to consecutive years picking in the lottery.\u00a0 Ironically, that same rule is what stuck the White Sox with the 10th pick in this year’s draft, despite finishing last year with the most losses in the history of the league.<\/p>\n

This will be the third time the White Sox have had the overall #1 pick in the draft.\u00a0 In 1971, they selected Danny Goodwin, a catcher out of Peoria High School.\u00a0 In typical White Sox fashion, they lowballed him and he chose to go to college instead, becoming the first top pick to not sign.\u00a0 Things went a little better in 1977, when they selected Harold Baines with the top pick.\u00a0 He would, of course, eventually have his number retired by the team and be elected to the Hall of Fame.\u00a0 Not to put any pressure on whoever the team ends up selecting come July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the first time since 1977, the White Sox will have the top overall pick in next July’s MLB draft.\u00a0 Despite having the second worst record in baseball in 2025, the White Sox entered last night’s draft lottery with the best chance at the #1 pick, as the Rockies were ineligible for a top-nine pick […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[12201,2501,47,44,12202,257,49],"class_list":["post-23520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-danny-goodwin","tag-draft","tag-harold-baines","tag-hof","tag-peoria-high-school","tag-rockies","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23522,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23520\/revisions\/23522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}