The suspense didn’t last long for Chase Burns.
The Cincinnati Reds made Burns, a Beech High graduate who grew up in Gallatin, the second overall pick of the Major League Baseball Draft on Sunday. The pick’s assigned approximate value is $9.79 million, per MLB.com.
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