MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Catcher Ivan Gonzalez is the second West Virginia baseball player to be taken in the 2019 MLB Draft, going to the Chicago White Sox in the eighth round.
Gonzalez was taken with the 230th overall pick. He joins battery-mate Alek Manoah as a draft pick. Manoah was drafted Monday by the Toronto Blue Jays with the 11th overall pick.
“It’s a true blessing, dreaming as a kid of getting that call and then having it actually happen,” Gonzalez said in an official WVU release. “It hasn’t really set in yet; it’s a surreal moment after all the hard work.