Ep. 44: White Sox scouting director Nick Hostetler with the inside scoop about the White Sox 2017 draft

The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

Chicago Sports Network

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4.7 • 620 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2017

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Soon after completing the 2017 MLB draft, White Sox scouting director Nick Hostetler came on the podcast with Chuck Garfien and Ryan McGuffey to talk about what went on behind the scenes with the White Sox draft. Hostetler goes in-depth about his initial meeting with first round pick Jake Burger, he explains why 7th round pick Evan Skoug wants to get revenge against every team that passed him up, and he shares the character trait they went searching for in every pick. Hostetler also reveals what movie he saw the night before the draft to get him in the right frame of mind for the draft, if scouts actually lie to reporters when giving information about players, why the White Sox drafted Larry King's son and a whole lot more.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. It's the White Sox Talk podcast brought to you by WinTrust Community Bank,
0:10.4	home of White Sox checking with free ATMs nationwide. Find out more at Wintrust.com slash socks.
0:17.5	That's wintrust.com slash socks. This is Chuck Ard Fine here with Ryan McGuffey.
0:22.5	We normally do our podcast every Tuesday, but this was the MLB draft week. We already came out with
0:28.4	Jim Callis. That's, make sure you to check out that podcast. That was put out on Wednesday.
0:34.7	But today, we had about a 45-minute conversation with Nick Hostelder? I didn't anticipate it being 45, but it was fun, right? Yeah. This is one of my favorite podcasts. I know. He's just, I felt like we were almost at the bar, except we weren't drinking. Yeah. You know? I had a few drinks beforehand, but that's a whole other story. No, I'm kidding.
1:00.1	I learned so much about, I'll just say this, he gave us the inside scoop on a lot of stuff.
1:03.5	And I also thought, I went in depth on a lot of things I didn't know about.
1:04.0	Agreed. And I think it feels like you're in the war room with him.
1:08.9	I think he pulled this into what it was like to truly be in, you know, whether you're in the war room with him. I think he felt, you know, he pulled this into what it was like
1:11.5	to truly be in, you know, whether you're a scout or regional scout, whatever, or assistant GM or
1:17.0	GM himself, or I'm sorry, head of scouting, it's a unique place to be. And I think he delves into
1:24.2	what that's like and when they make a selection like Jake Berger, what happens?
1:28.5	Yeah, so he's going to, in the podcast, he's going to talk about the meeting that he had with Jake
1:34.5	Berger and with some information that we had not heard before, how much Jim Tomey had an effect
1:40.9	on that pick and a couple of others.
1:43.9	He talks about mock drafts. We all know about the
1:46.7	mock drafts. Does Nick Hosteller, does Rick Hahn, do these guys read the mock drafts? You'll want to
1:52.1	hear that. Larry King's son was drafted. Larry King, not his grandson. And not his 45-year-old
1:59.4	son. Not his great-grandson. It's his son. Why year old that is great grandson it's his son why did the
2:02.8	white socks draft larry king's son he also talks about the one characteristic i shouldn't say the
2:08.3	one but one characteristic that they went looking for big time in this draft and when you hear
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