Typically, teams will shoot for the moon on a pick or two on day one. The Rangers did with all four picks.
Gio Rojas, Connor Comeau, Brody Bumila, and Hudson Calhoun. Four prospects with enormous ceilings and equally as low floors. Two high school left-handed pitchers (one with two UCL injuries), a 6-foot-4 prep shortstop, and a three-year college reliever with a career 4.46 ERA.
Texas trusts their player development… a lot.
All three of the arms selected fit the Rangers' pitching philosophy: low launchers with big fastball shapes. Caden Scarborough and AJ Russell are marquee examples of the archetype. They’ve crafted a sneakily good farm system composed of non-first-round picks and international signings, building a potent group from the ground up.
What can we expect from these four prospects, and how do they fit the Rangers’ player development system?
Texas was heavily tied to bats at pick …