The Baseball America Eastern League top 20 prospect list is out, and even though the Texas Rangers don’t have an affiliate in the AA Eastern League, they still had a prospect crack the list. Taylor Hearn, the lefthanded pitcher who came over to the Rangers in the trade that sent Keone Kela to Pittsburgh, checks in at #19 on the BA list.
Hearn gets praise for his mid- to upper-90s fastball, with BA saying his breaking ball and change could end up as above-average pitches as well. Hearn put up a 3.