
First-round draft pick Noah Schultz departed Sunday for Birmingham, Alabama, to attend a White Sox minicamp, a development that seemed iffy moments prior to his selection as the 26th overall pick on July 17.
“The day of the draft, I still didn’t know if he was going to be drafted, or if he was going to attend Vanderbilt until the Sox picked him,” Larry Schultz, Noah’s father, revealed Monday. “We weren’t quite sure what was going to happen.