Grading Every MLB Team's 2015 Draft Haul 6 Years Later | News, Scores, Highlights, Stats, and Rumors

First-Round Picks: RHP Dillon Tate (1-4)

Other MLB Players: SS Dylan Moore (7-198), RHP Pete Fairbanks (9-258), OF Scott Heineman (11-318), 1B Curtis Terry (13-378), RHP Demarcus Evans (25-738), RHP Jeffrey Springs (30-888), LHP CD Pelham (33-978)

The first pitcher selected in 2015, UC Santa Barbara ace Dillon Tate went 8-5 with a 2.26 ERA, 0.91 WHIP and 111 strikeouts in 103.2 innings during his junior season while showcasing electric stuff, as Baseball America noted:

"Tate's high-energy delivery, fast arm and athletic body deliver plus fastballs, sitting 94-96 mph and touching 97-98, especially early in games. They have some arm-side life that make his hard, plus slider even more effective. It's his strikeout pitch, missing bats with late life and upper-80s velocity, scraping 89 mph. Tate's changeup has improved the more he's used it, and his cutter gives him a another wrinkle to throw at hitters from the same release point."

Amid a rocky pro debut, but still possessing significant upside, Texas traded him to the New York Yankees at the 2016 deadline in a package for Carlos Beltran. He was traded again in 2018 in the deal that sent Zack Britton out of Baltimore, and he has a 4.61 ERA in 105.1 innings over the past three seasons with the Orioles.

The Rangers used hard-throwing reliever Pete Fairbanks to acquire Nick Solak from the Tampa Bay Rays in 2019, while a number of others from this class have seen time on a fluid Rangers roster.