Future Games Recap: Pitchers (Mississippi)
August 8, 2017
Ronald Sims
Mississippi Scouting Director
Over 250 college coaches from across the country were on-hand to watch the top uncommitted prospects in the Prep Baseball Report coverage areas compete over a 4-day span at the 2017 Future Games.
In the coming days our scouting staff will dive deeper into the weekend with complete analysis of the prospects who represented the state on the nation’s largest stages. Today, we will look at the pitchers who represented the state in the 2017 PBR Future Games.
To see the complete statistics from Wednesday’s workout day, CLICK HERE.
For more on the event, visit the daily Scout Blogs, Day 1, Day 2, & Day 3
PITCHERS
Chandler Best, LHP, McGill Toolen Catholic, 2019
Lean 5-foot-11, 170-pound left-handed pitcher with a medium, athletic frame. Long, clean arm action into high-3/4 release with quick arm speed and easy effort. Smooth rhythm, in-line direction, lands square and finishes athletic. Showed pitchability, commanding his fastball at 83-85 mph to both sides of the plate with occasional late life. Breaking ball showed 2/8 shape with inconsistent spin and depth at 69-71 mph. Also showed a feel for a quality changeup with fastball arm speed, deception and late fading action at 72-73 mph.
Turner Swistak, RHP/3B, Oak Grove, 2020
Athletic 6-foot-2, 170-pound frame with wide shoulders. Quality athlete with short arm action into high-3/4 release, quick arm speed and normal effort. Solid rhythm, level shoulders, in-line direction, and finishes athletically. Strike thrower, worked with quality tempo, pitching 81-84 mph with his fastball. Flashed ability to spin breaking ball for strike with shape and solid spin.
Landon Rascoe, RHP, Hattiesburg, 2019
Athletic 6-foot-1, 185_pound frame. Long, loose, quick arm action from a high-3/4 arm slot. Strong at balance position, working in-line and downhill with dominate front side, some effort and good finish to the plate. The baseball jumps out of his hand, sitting 88-92 mph with late life and deception to his fastball. Secondary stuff is still developing, but he flashed the ability to spin a tight breaking ball at times, with 11/5 shape and depth at 70-74 mph.
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