R.C. Orlan

When you envision draft day, you picture being surrounded in a room full of your closest friends and family waiting anxiously to hear your name selected by the MLB commissioner Rob Manfred and then getting a phone call from the team right before the commissioner takes the podium and then you hear “With the 25th pick of the 2017 Major League Baseball draft…” For left-handed pitcher R.C. Orlan, there was none of the that. Yesterday his name was called in the first round of the Rule 5 draft. He was selected 25th overall in the Triple-A portion by the Cleveland Indians, who had the opportunity to select him when the Washington Nationals left him unprotected. In fact, not only was he not patiently waiting for his name to be called, but he didn’t even know until he check ...