The kid always believed he would get here. When he was little, Roch Cholowsky wrote letters saying he would play in Yankee Stadium someday. Before he bypassed a chance to go high in the MLB draft out of high school, the precocious shortstop spoke with a local TV station, telling the reporter that his goal was to be the top pick but that he needed to refine his game by going to UCLA. “I saved it,” Tika Cholowsky, Roch’s mother, recently told the California Post, “and I was looking through some stuff and I saw that and I just went, ‘Wow.’ ” Roch Cholowsky of the UCLA Bruins bats during the fourth inning against the Iowa Hawkeyes at Duane Banks Field on March 28, 2026 in Iowa City, Iowa. Diamond Images/Getty Images Wow indeed. Fulfilling his own prophecy, Roch Cholowsky on Saturday became the