Chronicles of the Lads

He's the Angels' first pick of the draft, taken with the 58th pick (the supplemental round). You can read about him here, but he's a 6'4'', 210-pound right-handed pitcher who can hit up to the mid-90s on the gun (though usually low-90s) and has a plus breaking ball "when it's on". He's considered something of a project, but comes out of Florida, where our scouting department has Tom Kotchman in charge, and Kotch the Elder has quite the eye for major league talent. His fastball has a "late tail and a nice downward plane", which sounds great to me.

The scouting video at the above link shows him hitting 89-91 on his fastball, with the slider in the mid-70s.

Look, I hadn't heard of this kid before we picked him, and you probably haven't, either. But I trust our scouting department, especially the Florida contingent, so I'm pretty happy and intrigued with this pick.

Baseball America talks about the Angel scouts checking him out a bit here.

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