The MLB Draft is done. The Rangers spent the first two days making the baseball industry’s head spin with a dynamic pair of pitching picks that could set the...
They also got some high school players with nice tools like speedy Chandler Pollard and Tommy Specht in rounds five and six. They have upside. But this draft will be remembered as a hit or miss based on Rocker and Porter.I know, right? Crazy. Crazier still when you consider the Rangers didn’t have a second or third-round pick.
Both Rocker and Porter are being advised by agent Scott Boras, which perhaps made figuring out how to make them both fit a little less logistically challenging.Best way to say this: It gives the Rangers a realistic chance – a chance – at having a homegrown, championship-caliber rotation. In Jack Leiter, Cole Winn, Owen White, Cole Ragans, Ricky Vanasco, still-rehabbing Dane Acker, Rocker and Porter, the Rangers have at least eight legitimate candidates for the No.
That’s a little bit unbalanced. But, the general consensus was that this draft was thin on pitching at the top and deep on it in the middle- and lower-rounds.
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