(6/4/21) Stockton Ports' Tyler Soderstrom hits a pop fly during a California League baseball game against the Lake Elsinore Storm at the Stockton Ballpark in downtown Stockton. Portsvsstorm 056a
The Oakland A’s had high hopes for Tyler Soderstrom after drafting him in the first round of the 2020 MLB Draft. Considered an athletic, but raw catcher, he was billed as a bat first prospect, someone who could move up the ladder reasonably quickly for a high school player. It was just a matter of whether or not he would live up to that billing.
Soderstrom’s promising first season in the minors has hit a slight roadblock.