There was some surprise around the sport when the Mets selected Carson Wiggins, who had thrown 14 total innings in two seasons at Arkansas and was coming off elbow surgery, with the 27th-overall selection in last weekend’s MLB draft.
The pick caught Wiggins’ Razorbacks pitching coach off-guard, too, but for a different reason.
“I was surprised he lasted to 27,” Matt Hobbs said over the phone this week. “If he was healthy and he’d have pitched the whole season, he’d have been a top-10, maybe a top-five pick.
“It sounds like [the Mets] got a great deal.”
