Jackson Kowar, ranked by Baseball America as the 75th best prospect in the league, made his MLB debut for the Kansas City Royals against the Los Angeles Angels tonight. Kowar had dominated Triple-A Omaha to the tune of a 0.85 and a strikeout rate of nearly 34%. Joining Brady Singer, Kris Bubic, and Daniel Lynch as 2018 draftees to start a game for that big league club in the same season, Kowar made history tonight—no other team in MLB history had pulled off that feat.
I’m not going to mince words here now, so be warned: thus ends the nice things that one can say about Kowar’s debut, because there are no nice things to say about his actual pitching.