The man we are writing about has been around for already quite some time: Jacob Faria was drafted out of a California high school by the Tampa Bay Rays in 2011 in the 10th round, just a month before the starting pitcher would turn 18.
His transaction to pro baseball was very smooth. He had an exemplary career in the Tampa Bay minors but seemed to have been pretty much overlooked by most media outlets. Fangraphs, for example, doesn’t mention him until 2017 in their Rays farm rankings when they rank young Jacob 15th with a 40 FV.