Dan Cholowsky knows what it looks like when a kid can play.
He spent eight years in professional baseball after St. Louis selected him in the first round of the 1991 MLB Draft. He's been scouting for years since, criss-crossing the country and building a career evaluating talent. When you've seen that many players, you stop getting surprised by young kids who can hit.
So when Dan Cholowsky tells you his son Roch is special, it carries a particular weight. This isn't a dad inflating a kid who batted .300 on the travel ball circuit. This is a man who spent a career separating real talent from fool's gold, and he watched something different develop in his own living room.
"I come home every day and we talk baseball," Roch Cholowsky said of his father. "I love that guy more than anything."
That conversation has been going on since before …