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Pirates Select RHP Mike Walsh with Their Ninth Round Pick

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With their ninth round pick in the 2022 MLB draft, the Pittsburgh Pirates selected right-handed pitcher Mike Walsh out of Yale.

Walsh ranked 498th overall in this draft class, getting a bumped based off the info in the tweet above. His low-90s fastball has a high spin rate and he has a slider with a sweeping motion that is called above average. The Pirates are definitely going all in on guys with 90s fastballs/sweeping slider combos this year. He did not have good results at Yale this year (or in limited prior college time), posting a 5.68 ERA in 65 innings, though he picked up 80 strikeouts. He did outstanding in a relief role in summer ball, with 23 strikeouts in 11.1 innings. He doesn’t have the best control, which could keep him in that bullpen role. He managed to hit 24 batters this year at Yale. He’s 21 years old and stands 6’2″, 200 pounds.

John Dreker
John Dreker
John started working at Pirates Prospects in 2009, but his connection to the Pittsburgh Pirates started exactly 100 years earlier when Dots Miller debuted for the 1909 World Series champions. John was born in Kearny, NJ, two blocks from the house where Dots Miller grew up. From that hometown hero connection came a love of Pirates history, as well as the sport of baseball. When he didn't make it as a lefty pitcher with an 80+ MPH fastball and a slider that needed work, John turned to covering the game, eventually focusing in on the prospects side, where his interest was pushed by the big league team being below .500 for so long. John has covered the minors in some form since the 2002 season, and leads the draft and international coverage on Pirates Prospects. He writes daily on Pittsburgh Baseball History, when he's not covering the entire system daily throughout the entire year on Pirates Prospects.

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