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Being a first-round draft pick comes with a certain level of expectation. Some players waste no time exceeding those expectations (hello, Paul Skenes), while others need time to adjust and figure things out.
Some never live up to the hype and fizzle out in the blink of an eye, and many never even make it to The Show.
The jury is still out on Max Meyer, the No. 3 overall pick in the 2020 draft, but it’s looking promising after going 1-2 with a 2.63 ERA, 27-7 strikeout-walk rate, .222 opponents’ average and a top-20 swinging-strike rate (13.2 percent) in his first four starts. He’s performing well despite the Marlins’ lineup providing him with the seventh-lowest run support per nine innings (1.5), scoring more than one run in one of his starts.
Is his performance sustainable? Roto Rage believes so.