There have been some eye-opening starts to the baseball season this year at both the major league and minor league levels, but Tampa Bay Rays starter Blake Snell takes the cake.
The left-hander has rattled off 46 straight scoreless innings to start the year, as he appears to be the latest in a long line of homegrown starting pitchers to come through the Tampa Bay Rays farm system.
He’s not the only one turning heads down at the farm, though, as there are more minor leaguers putting together some impressive stat lines, prospect or otherwise.
So with that in mind, here is a closer look at Snell and nine other minor leaguers who have put together eye-opening starts to the 2015 season.