I can’t wait to hear his spin about pick #180

The worst pick of the day belongs to the White Sox, who took GM Kenny Williams’ son in the fifth round. Kenny Williams Jr. is a senior at Wichita State who doesn’t even play every day and who was ruled academically ineligible for the 2007 season. He’s a good athlete and at least a 55 runner, but he’s 22 years old, played in 12 games in total prior to 2008, and wasn’t on most teams’ draft boards, although two or three other teams appeared to have had him inside the 10th round. It is hard to imagine that he would have been their 5th-round pick if his name was Kenny Smith, but the White Sox liked Kenny Jr.’s athleticism, something that was relatively scarce in this draft’s pool of college position players.

After thinking about what Philadelphia Eagles Andy Reid went through with his kids and the sad ending of Tony Dungys son life I’ve changed my opinion about the pick. Add that to the fact that some teams had him higher than the 10th round helped them justify the selection. However for a team that has had such corruption on the minor league level it recently this doesn’t look good from a person looking in.