Heading into the 2020 MLB Draft, Los Angeles Dodgers vice president of amateur scouting Billy Gasparino highlighted the abundance of collegiate pitching that was available.
The Dodgers then went on to take a college pitcher with each of their first three picks. Included in that was drafting right-hander Landon Knack out of East Tennessee State University in the second round (No. 60 overall).
“We’re fired up. We just got a lot of velocity, a lot of pure stuff. It’s big, it’s right handed,” Gasparino said after the five-round draft concluded.
“It was a strength of the Draft, and we just took advantage of it.