Ryan Johnson reaches major leagues without stepping on the minors

Pitcher Ryan Johnson, selected in the second round by Los Angeles Los Angels, makes a major league roster, skipping minor leagues

The right pitcher Ryan Johnson entered him Roster of the Inaugural day of Los Angeles Angels and will debut in the Major Leagues Without having played a single game of minor leagues.

Johnson, 22 years old and selected in the second round of the Draft last year, signed for $ 1.75 million, but did not launch after launching 106 tickets in his junior season in Dallas Baptist. Once he debuts (Johnson is expected to work from the Bullpen), he would be the first player to completely skip the minor leagues from Garrett Crochet, who joined the Chicago White Sox in 2020, when the minor leagues season was canceled due to the COVID-19.

Johnson will be just the third player since 2001 to play in the big leagues without having played a single game of minor leagues, joining crochet and the right pitcher Mike Leake (2010). Since the implementation of the Draft in 1965, only 23 players before Johnson have been transferred directly to the big leagues.

The Los Angels Bullpen currently includes veteran closer Kenley Jansen, the powerful pitcher Ben Joyce and the right pitcher Ryan Zeferjahn, who in a dozen games last year as a rookie recorded an effectiveness of 2.12.

With a line that has exceeded 100 MPH and a powerful slider in which he trusts, Johnson won the position with a stellar spring in which he struck out 10 and gave only one ball base in 11⅓ entries, with an effectiveness of 3.97.

The aggressiveness in the promotion of Johnson aligns with the organizational philosophy of Los Angels, which has seen the players quickly ascend through the system. The first base Nolan Shanuel debuted in the Major Leagues only 40 days after the Angels selected it with the eleventh selection of the 2023 draft. The Net Zach Campocorto played only 44 games with Los Angels before their promotion on April 15, 2023. The second base Christian Moore, selected in the first round of the Los Angeles Draft last year A to end the 2024 season.

With 1.98 meters tall, a vibrant and energetic launch, and an elite hoax, Johnson struck out 151 batters and granted 14 bases for balls for Dallas Baptist and won the Award for the Player of the Year of the USA Conference. Johnson is the tenth best prospect of the Los Angels Organization, according to the classification of the Minor Leagues System of Kiley McDaniel, of AM850.