The Rockies have selected right-handed pitcher Riley Pint with their first round (fourth overall) pick in this year’s MLB draft. Pint comes from St. Thomas Aquinas (High School), Kansas, he’s six-foot-four, 210-pound power thrower committed to Louisiana State University.
Pint is the top-rate right-handed pitcher in the 2016 draft class who made waves this year in his swift rise to a consensus top pick after his fastball hit 102 mph on a radar gun in February. He is ranked fourth on Baseball America’s Top 100 Draft Prospects for 2016, and is the most hyped pitching prospect to come out of Kansas since Mike Pelfrey.