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Glew: Like father, like son - Chadwick begins pro career with Rockies

“Sometimes when Ray Chadwick watches his son pitch he sees himself out there on the mound.

“I just shake my head when I watch him pitch,” said Ray, who toed the rubber for the California Angels in 1986. “It’s eerie how similar it is.”

Like his dad, Tyrelle Chadwick is a tall right-hander whose fastball can reach the high 90s.

And like his dad, he has had to work to control that pitch.

But thanks to his breakthrough junior season at Illinois State University this spring, Tyrelle, like his dad, will pitch professionally. The 6-foot-4, 225-pound right-hander was selected in the 18th round of the 2025 MLB draft by the Colorado Rockies.”

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Verge: From the soccer pitch to pitcher, Gillespie ready to begin pro career with Yankees

“The MLB draft wasn’t even on a 13-year-old Blake Gillespie’s radar.

Why would it be?

Baseball wasn’t part of his repertoire.

The young teen was busy dribbling a soccer ball around cones at the field, not coming set on the mound about to throw a zinger to the catcher.

But it was, unbeknownst to Gillespie, part of his future. The now 21-year-old, who didn’t pick up baseball until he was 14, was drafted in the ninth round by the New York Yankees on July 14. “

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