The Angels on Wednesday with their first-round selection in the 2020 MLB Draft picked Reid Detmers, a left-handed pitcher out of Louisville with the 10th overall selection.
For the most part, most national mock drafts linked the Angels to either an outfielder or a college pitcher with their first pick. Detmers specifically was linked to the Halos in nine different mock drafts.
Detmers is the first pitcher drafted by the Angels in the first round since Sean Newcomb in 2014.
As a sophomore in 2019, Detmers was 13-4 with a 2.