DETROIT -- The Detroit Tigers today announced the club has agreed to terms on a four-year contract with right-handed pitcher Rick Porcello from Seton Hall Prep High in West Orange, NJ, the club's first pick (27th overall) in the 2007 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft.
Porcello compiled a 10-0 record and 1.18 ERA as a senior at Seton Hall Prep High in 2007. He fanned 112 batters in 71 innings pitched, while issuing only 15 walks. Porcello fired a 77-pitch perfect game on May 12 against Newark Academy.
He was selected USA Today's High School Player of the Year in 2007, while he was tabbed a First-Team High School All-American by Baseball America and the Louisville Slugger High School Player of the Year in New Jersey. A 2006 Aflac All-American, Porcello was named the 2006-07 Gatorade National Baseball Player of the Year on May 31.
The 6-5, 200-pound right-hander was rated by Baseball America as possessing the second-best fastball and secondary pitch among all draft-eligible high school prospects this year, while he was rated as the third-closest high school prospect to reaching the Major Leagues.
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