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With the their third round pick in the 2021 Draft, the Blue Jays selected LHP Ricky Tiedemann 91st overall from Golden West College, a junior college in California. His brother Tai is in the Rangers farm system, a 6’6” RHP who was an 8th rounder in 2016 also out of junior college in California.
Few draftees were likely more adversely in baseball terms affected by the circumstances of 2020 than Tiedemann, between his senior high school season getting shutdown as he and the draft being shortened to just five rounds. Over the previous summer, he had grown a couple inches and added velocity, into the low-90s, the classic high school projection profile that generates helium and draft interest.