Bullpen arms are volatile. It might not make sense to grab hold of one when it flashes some dazzle. Then again, why not? Erik Miller has thrown just 264 pitches in his major league career but that’s enough of a sample to pass the eye test.
One of the nastiest relievers in the San Francisco Giants bullpen was once a highly regarded Philadelphia Phillies prospect. Erik Miller, who was drafted by the Phillies out of Stanford in the fourth round of the 2019 Draft, made the Opening Day roster for San Francisco and is off to a solid start.
Who is the 29th-best prospect on the Giants farm? You might be wrapped up in watching the San Francisco Giants Spring Training games, and I can’t blame you for that!
But not Grant McCray or Aeverson Arteaga. It turns out that my Rule 5 predictions for the San Francisco Giants were completely accurate. Not in the sense that I correctly predicted the names, but in the sense that I correctly predicted that I’d be wrong.