When the Rockies took Peter Lambert with the 44th overall pick in the 2015 draft out of San Dimas High School (San Dimas high school football rules!), they put him on the same development path of the prior year’s second rounder and fellow PuRP Ryan Castellani. Namely, the Rockies handled the 20-year-old righty very carefully, barely allowing Lambert to eclipse five innings and never allowing his pitch count to go above 90 until 2017, his third professional season.
After Lambert had a successful professional debut season for Grand Junction in 2015, the Rockies assigned the 6’2” pitcher to Low A Asheville, where he was among the youngest players in the league (facing hitters that were on average 2.