Orion

Kerkering

Even for blue-chip prospects who are showered with praise from Little League on, it can be a long and perilous road to The Show. Imagine then, the time and sweat it takes for a fifth-round pick out of an unheralded Division I program to force his way to the MLB. An array of emotions inevitably come to the surface. Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Orion Kerkering did not visibly display these emotions in his big-league debut, though.