PBR Scout Day: OTK Baseball - Infielders

Active feet and caught the ball with ease.  Average hands and clean exchanges stood out for the 5-foot-3, 110 pounder.  Young frame with plenty of maturing ahead.  Sixty time measured 7.85.  Loads the arm after the exchange with long shuffles and a long arm swing, turning the ball early to an over-the-top slot.  Head works off line through the release, causing some effort, with positional velocity measuring 74 mph across the diamond.  A left-handed hitter, works from a tall base and open.  Simple setup and swing, very repeatable.  Good head discipline.  Average stride works to a level swing.  Line drives stay gap-to-gap.  Fluid rhythm, rotational on the back side, average bat speed.  Exit velocity topped at 72 mph.  

Right handed pitcher worked 68-72 with his fastball, showing some run.  Change-up is ahead of the curveball, ranging 67-69 with feel and arm side action.  Gets around the breaking ball, 63-65, creating an erratic sweeping action.  In the wind-up the front side clears early with the head causing some effort.  Line is much more closed and simple in the stretch.

Long limbs on the 6-foot-2, 160 pound left-handed hitter.  Works open and tall, with a short stride.  Good feel for the barrel, exit velocity topped at 77 mph.  Stayed gap-to-gap with a level stroke, producing occasional uphill leverage.  Showed average hands around the bag with a long arm action to an over-the-top slot.  Positional velocity topped at 65 mph with accuracy on a number of different types of throws.  Tends to catch the ball deep, lacking some rhythm in the feet, then funneling to the mid-section for clean exchanges.  Ran a 8.03 sixty.

On the mound the fastball ranged 67-68 with occasional run.  The change-up would flash early fade at 68-61, slowing the arm.  The curveball works with early, gradual 10/4 tilt, slowing the arm and topping at 60.  

6-foot-2, 160 pound lanky frame.  Caught the ball consistently.  Average hands worked, while high through the core at times.  Long arm action to a high-¾ slot showed accuracy and carry, measuring 81 mph across the diamond.  Right handed hitter ran a 7.47 sixty and produced an exit velocity of 83 mph off the barrel.  Crouched, loads back with a weight shift into a short stride.  Barrel loads to a vertical position.  Some pull tendency in a swing that can drag through the zone level, staying gap-to-gap.  

On the mound, the fastball plays heavy at 80-83 with hard run when down in the zone.  Was elevated in the zone at times, but showed a feel for throwing strikes.  Slows the arm on change-up producing 71-73 run and cut action.  Breaking ball ranged 67-69 with gradual 11/5 arc, fighting to create spin and lacking extension at times.  Tall and closed at balance, with some coil in the upper half, lacks some extension while fighting to get back on line.  Works from a high-¾ slot with quickness in the arm.  Long arm swing is loose, working behind the body line, creating some effort to get back on line.

5-foot-7, 160 pounder.  Works very direct to all ground balls, catching the ball deep, but showing quick, clean exchanges as he funnels to the midsection.  Arm tested at 74 mph across the infield from a long arm action to an over-the-top slot.  Erratic at times.  Ran a 7.90 sixty.  Right-handed hitter starts open and crouched loading the bat head to a slight wrap.  Average stride.  Aggressive.  Works level with extension, staying gap-to-gap.  Exit velocity topped at 77 mph.  

Fastball seemed to play heavy at 74-76.  Change-up has good deception with arm side run at 64-67.  Breaking ball touched 67 with late downer action.  Some effort as the arm works long to an over-the-top slot.  Glove points down the line and the front side clears the line.  Showed feel for the strike zone with fastball and change.  In the stretch, sets up with the line closed through the shoulders.