Jharel Cotton and Willie Calhoun are representing the Dodgers in the Futures Game later today. Both are having strong seasons at their respective levels of the minor leagues.
Calhoun is doing quite well as a 21-year-old in his first full professional season. He leads the Tulsa Drillers with 17 home runs and is showing a lot of potential for a guy not drafted until the fourth round of last year’s MLB Draft.
Cotton, 24, is in his in his fifth professional season. He was drafted in the 20th round of the 2012 draft — a draft that has produced MLBers in Corey Seager, Paco Rodriguez, Onelki Garcia, Ross Stripling, Darnell Sweeney and Daniel Coulombe.