The step up is a challenge, as the previous nine can attest, but the adjustments to Major League hitters have to begin at some point.
Of the nine starting pitchers, the only two with a winning record are Phillies right-hander Aaron Nola (2-1, 3.38 ERA in three starts), the seventh player taken in the 2014, and Zack Godley (2-0, 2.25 ERA in two starts), selected by the Cubs in the 10th round in 2013 and sent to the D-backs in the trade for catcher Miguel Montero this past offseason.
Right-hander Kendall Graveman, an eighth-round Draft choice of the Blue Jays in 2013, who was part of the package sent to the A's for third baseman Josh Donaldson in the offseason, is the only member of the two Draft classes who has been in a rotation since Opening Day.