Harrison Bader came out of nowhere in a way for the St. Louis Cardinals in 2018. Not regarded highly at all as a prospect moving through the system, Bader wowed the team in Spring Training and never played a game at AAA the entire year.
Skip to the end of the season, and all the sudden Bader had entrenched himself as a very valuable piece of the everyday lineup proving prospect gurus wrong all over. The team has continued entrenching Bader by involving him in promotions and marketing campaigns all winter. I can’t blame them.