After USC baseball ace Mason Edwards was drafted with the No. 47 overall pick on Day 1 of the 2026 MLB Draft on Saturday, three more Trojans heard their names called on Day 2 of the draft on Sunday.

Augie Lopez (No. 305)

Catcher Augie Lopez is staying close to Los Angeles, as the San Diego Padres drafted the sophomore with the No. 305 pick in the 10th round. Lopez is also from Hermosa Beach, California, which means he will also be staying close to home.

Lopez played two seasons with USC. At the plate, he offers a lot of power and averaged .278 with 19 home runs and 57 RBIs this season. As a freshman in 2025, he was named to the Big Ten All-Freshman Team.

Grant Govel (No. 468)

In the 16th round of the draft, the Pittsburgh Pirates drafted sophomore right-hander Grant Govel with the No. 468 pick. Entering the draft, Govel was ranked as the No. 216 prospect by MLB, so he fell farther down in the draft than projected.

Govel finished the 2026 season with a 2.93 ERA and 96 strikeouts across a team-leading 98.1 innings for USC. His 96 strikeouts ranked second on the team behind Edwards. He also spent both seasons of his collegiate career with the Trojans.

Adam Troy (No. 518)

The fourth and final Trojan selected during the 2026 draft was right-handed pitcher Adam Troy. The Philadelphia Phillies claimed Troy with the No. 519 pick in the 17th round of the draft.

Troy played the first two seasons of his career at Pepperdine before transferring to USC for the 2026 season. With the Trojans, he posted a 4.28 ERA and 39 strikeouts across 33.2 innings.

In total, four Trojans were selected in the 2026 MLB Draft.

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The Chicago White Sox selected UCLA shortstop Roch Cholowsky with the No. 1 overall pick of the 2026 Major League Baseball Draft on Saturday in Philadelphia.

Cholowsky has been an enormously praised prospect for a few years and was viewed as the clear favorite to be the top pick of the 2026 MLB Draft before the season even began.

So, much of the baseball world has been well aware of Cholowsky for a long while, and one would think that MLB commissioner Rob Manfred would be too. Or that he would at least practice how to pronounce the name before announcing it to the world during the draft.

But Manfred mispronounced Cholowsky’s name when announcing the first pick of the draft, which was shown nationally on NBC for the first time (for the first 10 picks).

THE PICK IS IN… pic.twitter.com/A28njITE9V

— Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) July 11, 2026

It’s pronounced chil-OW’-skee.

Manfred’s flub didn’t slip by MLB Draft viewers.

The good stuff. Congrats to the Cholowsky family.

(Rob mispronouncing Roch’s name when he’s been the presumptive top pick for a year+ is a 10/10 on the Can’t Happen Scale ) https://t.co/fYEFuyleoh

— Stephen Nelson (@StephenNelson) July 11, 2026

I am known to mispronounce names, but Rob Manfred just mispronounced Roch Cholowsky’s name when announcing him as the No. 1 pick.

— JJ Cooper (@jjcoop36) July 11, 2026

Either every single human being has been pronouncing Roch Cholowsky’s name wrong or Rob Manfred just absolutely butchered the 1st overall pick’s name.

— Greg Huss (@OutOfTheVines) July 11, 2026

Huge blunder by the #MLB Commissoner. Can’t happen. Not a surprise Roch was the #1 pick. Manfred has to know how to say his name. https://t.co/ulzTVyKXq9

— Tim Cates (@timcates) July 11, 2026

Cholowsky was even asked by the media about Manfred’s blunder and said (via the Associated Press/KTLA), “I didn’t hear it get butchered. I heard Roch and kind of lost it.”

Still, that’s pretty embarrassing stuff from the league’s commissioner on the big stage.

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