In the 2017 draft, the Tampa Bay Rays selected everyone’s college player of the year Brendan McKay. He’s progressing nicely through the minors as both a star starting pitcher and a first baseman. He is following a very regimented routine of pitching and hitting, and doing a standout job of it, elevating himself to the High-A Charlotte Stone Crabs.
Last night, with the 71st pick, the Rays selected right-handed pitcher Tanner Dodson out of the University of California-Berkeley. And, like past John Olerud three-time, Two-Way Player of the Year award winner McKay, Dodson is a finalist for the 2018 award.