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Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Pearson and the Sox put to rest any notions of their reluctance to select pitchers on Sunday night. The team used its first-round pick to nab 20-year-old Oklahoma righthander Kyson Witherspoon, viewed by some as the top college righthander in this year’s class. …

Gage Wood, a right-handed pitcher out of the University of Arkansas, is the Phillies’ selection at 26th overall in the 2025 MLB Draft. The 21-year-old only has a combined 13 starts in college over the past two years, going 4-1 with a 3.82 ERA across 37.2 innings pitched this past season.  But he brings some good velocity with a mid-high-90s …