You never really know what to expect when the MLB draft moves into the later rounds. Sometimes it feels like teams are just picking a name out of a hat and hoping for the best. When the Toronto Blue Jays picked Gage Stanifer in the 19th-round of the 2022 draft, they were taking a 6'3" 210 pound high school pitcher who had 83 strikeouts in 38 innings as a senior. His fastball was sitting between 92-95 mph and he mixed in a hard-breaking slider and changeup.
The Blue Jays signed him for $125,000 and through his first two seasons he pitched just about as well as you would probably expect a 19-year-old 19th-round pick to pitch.