There wasn’t much information on Owen Kellington when the Pittsburgh Pirates drafted him in the fourth round in 2021. What was known was that he put up eye-popping numbers in Vermont as a prep player.
In 49 innings pitched, Kellington posted a 0.22 ERA and struck out 133 batters — good for 24.4 per nine innings.
Of course, with Vermont not being a hotbed for baseball, those numbers might not have painted a strong pitcher as to what Kellington was as a prospect.
Now in his second full season in the organization, first in Single-A, one look at him on the mound and you can see where those strikeout numbers came from.