They aren’t yet able to legally purchase a beer, but the four pitchers below are making talent evaluators around the game take notice.



LHP Matthew Liberatore



Current Assignment: Rookie Gulf Coast Rays (Rays, Gulf Coast League)



Ht/Wt: 6-5, 200 B/T: L/L DOB: Nov. 6, 1999



Season Stats: 0-2, 18 IP, 1.50 ERA, 11 H, 3 ER, 20 K, 7 BB



By Melissa Lockard



For much of this spring, wherever Liberatore stepped on the mound, a crowd of scouts followed. As one of the top high school pitching prospects eligible for the 2018 draft, Liberatore was going to garner plenty of attention in any circumstance, but the fact that he pitched for Mountain Ridge High School in Glendale, Arizona, meant that there were always plenty of scouts and baseball executives just a few miles away, able to see him at a moment’s notice. The crowds were especially big when Liberatore took on one of his closest friends, Nolan Gorman of Sandra Day O’Connor...