pick out
verb
picked out; picking out; picks out
2
: to play the notes of by ear or one by one
picking out tunes on the piano
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Like right-hander Lowder, the Reds’ first-round pick out of Wake Forest in 2023, the Reds didn’t have Burns pitch after drafting him in August.
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C. Trent Rosecrans, New York Times, 22 June 2025
Yost was a 17th-round pick out of Northeastern in 2023.
—Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2025
Without that giveaway and his dad handing him the left-handed glove, Boyd might not have been a sixth-round pick out of Oregon State and authored a big-league career that, to this point, has spanned 11 years, 197 games and nearly 1,000 innings pitched.
—Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2025
Angels rookie Christian Moore, a first-round pick out of Tennessee in 2024, tied it 2-2 with his first major league homer to open the seventh.
—Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2025
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C. Trent Rosecrans, New York Times, 22 June 2025
Yost was a 17th-round pick out of Northeastern in 2023.
—Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2025
Without that giveaway and his dad handing him the left-handed glove, Boyd might not have been a sixth-round pick out of Oregon State and authored a big-league career that, to this point, has spanned 11 years, 197 games and nearly 1,000 innings pitched.
—Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2025
Angels rookie Christian Moore, a first-round pick out of Tennessee in 2024, tied it 2-2 with his first major league homer to open the seventh.
—Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2025
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“Pick out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pick%20out. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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