Baltimore Orioles’ Kevin Gausman pitches in the first inning of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox in Boston, July 6, 2014. (Michael Dwyer, The Associated Press)
Baltimore Orioles starting pitcher Kevin Gausman, a 2010 Grandview High graduate, was named to ESPN’s on Wednesday.
The annual list predicts which MLB players will put up big numbers in fantasy baseball four years in the future.
Gausman, a 6-foot-4 righty, has a 4-2 record for Baltimore this season with a 3.29 ERA. He was the fourth overall pick in the 2012 MLB Draft. In 2010, he was a .
From ESPN’s Tristan H. Cockcroft:
Teheran and Gausman make the team as personal favorites; you could swap in any of the next eight names from the “Best of the rest” list if you prefer and I’d hardly quibble. …
Gausman, meanwhile, was always a command specialist who this year has made major strides against lefties: They have .217/.293/.337 rates against him. Thanks to a diverse arsenal that includes a mid-90s fastball, slider, splitter and changeup, he’s inching ever closer to the front-of-the-rotation projections that scouts had at the time he debuted with the Baltimore Orioles in mid-2013.
No Rockies player made the list.
