After a long and drawn out first round (thanks ESPN), the baseball draft has finally entered the second round and the picks will start coming fast and furious.
The draft will last until about 9 p.m. this evening, then pick up at 11:30 a.m. Friday until its conclusion. Check back here often as I will be keeping you updated on all of the picks.
With their second pick, the Pirates selected Tanner Scheppers, a 6-4, 195-pound right-handed pitcher out of Fresno State.
Rated as the 10th-best player, and third-best pitcher by Baseball America, Scheppers has a fastball that is consistently 92-96 miles per hour and has touched 99 mph. Scheppers reportedly had a tender elbow at the beginning of May which might have caused him to slip out of the first round. Other reports say Scheppers has a stress fracture in his shoulder.
But other teams checked out Scheppers and cleared him.
In 12 games this season, Scheppers was 8-2 with a 2.93 ERA. He struck out 109 while allowing onlyu 54 hits and 34 walks in 71 innings pitched.
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