Blake Snell won't be making his fourth start of the season for Triple-A Durham on Friday as scheduled. Instead, MLBPipeline.com's No. 12 overall prospect will make his Major League debut Saturday afternoon at Yankee Stadium.
The Rays used their seventh of 10 first-round picks on Snell in 2011, selecting him in the supplemental first round (52nd overall) and then signing him away from a Washington commitment with a $684,000 bonus. They brought him along slowly but surely, with parts of two seasons in Rookie ball, before sending him to Class A Bowling Green in 2013.
Snell struggled to throw strikes in his full-season debut, walking 6.