A first round pick in 2015, Burrows is already making waves in the Tigers system.
Despite the profile described below, drafting hard-throwing righthander Beau Burrows was actually a surprise move from the Detroit Tigers. Sure, there's the hard-throwing part -- and boy, do the Tigers like their draftees to throw hard -- but with several high-profile college arms of similar stature available in the 2015 amateur draft, selecting the Texas high schooler at No. 22 overall was a bit of a shocker.
So far, so good. Burrows blazed through the Gulf Coast League last summer, allowing a 1.