The New York Mets shocked the baseball world when they selected Matt Allan in the third round of the 2019 MLB Draft. The media long believed that if he slid out of the first round, he would be nearly impossible to sign. That didn’t turn out to be the case.
Allan wound up signing with the Mets and earning a $2.5 million signing bonus. He then took the minors by storm dominating the Gulf Coast League before helping the Brooklyn Cyclones win their first New York-Penn League Championship.
Now Allan is widely considered the team’s top pitching prospect and is in nearly every publication’s top-110 prospects.