{"id":151285,"date":"2022-12-08T00:59:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T00:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/phillies-take-noah-song-in-rule-5-drafts-thad-ward-goes-no-one\/"},"modified":"2022-12-08T00:59:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T00:59:03","slug":"phillies-take-noah-song-in-rule-5-drafts-thad-ward-goes-no-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/phillies-take-noah-song-in-rule-5-drafts-thad-ward-goes-no-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies take Noah Song in Rule 5 drafts; Thad Ward goes No. one"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SAN DIEGO — The Washington Nationals selected Thad Ward, a right-hander out of the Boston Red Sox’s Triple-A affiliate, with the No. 1 overall pick Wednesday in the Rule 5 draft. But the most intriguing pick was the 11th, which saw the Philadelphia Phillies snag Noah Song, a once-promising starting pitcher who has spent the past three years in active military service.<\/p>\n

Song, 25, was originally a fourth-round draft pick by the Red Sox in 2019, when current Phillies president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski was in charge. Song had graduated from the US Naval Academy, where he mostly dominated, then went to aviation school after only seven professional starts.<\/p>\n

Listed at 6-foot-4 and 200 pounds, Song was considered a first-round talent coming out of college, but he slipped to the fourth round in part because of the uncertainty of his baseball future.<\/p>\n