In the span of one season, New York Yankees minor league pitcher Chance Adams has turned himself from one of the multitude of interesting relief arms in the farm system to perhaps the organization’s most exciting starting pitching prospect.
The team’s fifth round selection in the 2015 draft was a dominant reliever as a junior at Dallas Baptist University and continued that success out of the pen in his first year in the Yankees organization, pitching to a 1.78 ERA and striking out 11.5 per nine across three levels of A-Ball last year.
New York decided to see how Adams’s nasty stuff translated to the rotation in his second season as a professional, and the results were astounding.