Connor Sadzeck hits triple digits in AFL

Reinhold Matay-USA TODAY SportsTexas Rangers minor leaguer Connor Sadzeck is lighting up radar guns in the AFL

Heading into the 2014 season, Texas Rangers righthanded pitcher Connor Sadzeck was on the same tier of pitching prospects as Jerad Eickhoff and Alec Asher. The 2011 11th rounder out of Howard College had just put up a 2.25 ERA in Hickory in the 2013 season, and seemed to be positioning himself to ascend up the ranks.

Unfortunately, Sadzeck was diagnosed with a torn UCL in the spring of 2014, and Tommy John surgery cost him all of the 2014 season and much of the 2015 season. Sadzeck split the 2015 season between high-A High Desert and AA Frisco as he worked his way back from his…