Is the batter clearly guessing at pitch selection and location? Is there a steady stream of batters walking away from the box looking bewildered? What kind of contact are they able to make off the pitches?
Who seems to have the upper hand in each at-bat? A deep flyout may be an out but also signals a batter who is making good contact. The most important thing is fastball quality, since the fastball is what sets up all other offerings. Velocity is great, but velocity without command or control makes for a pretty one-dimensional pitcher. Generally scouts will prefer someone who can throw with good velocity, thinking command is easier to teach than velocity, which is considered an inborn trait.
All other things being equal, a pitcher who can get the ball in the zone in the mids, even with poor command, is usually considered a better prospect than one who throws in the highs with good command.
You can see why the Yankees took a chance on drafting him, and why the Mariners think they can help him take that extra step to be a successful MLB-pitcher.
College baseball scouts evaluate players by arm strength, fielding range, speed, and hitting for power and average. Recruiting guidelines offer a good benchmark for student-athletes to compare themselves with athletes competing at the college level. What are college baseball scouts generally looking for at each position? What skill sets should individual position players have? This section breaks down divisional recruiting guidelines to give recruits and their families a better understanding of what will be expected of them at each position.
Keep in mind:. When watching prospects, college coaches are constantly trying to project how well they are going to do at the college level.
At the college level, the game is much, much faster. Recruits need to show the strength, speed and general athleticism to make the jump. What will often separate recruits in the mind of coaches is how serious a prospect takes their sport. Can he locate his fastball for a strike when behind in the count? Does he pitch ahead-in-the-count, or behind? On average, a good inning for a pitcher would be 15 pitches or less. Greg Maddux of the Braves once threw a complete, nine inning game on 78 pitches, which is fewer than 9 pitches an inning Physical Maturity: Scouts will evaluate a pitcher's body to determine if he "feels" the pitcher can improve his velocity in the future with added strength and natural, physical maturity.
Scouts will examine the height, weight, visual body fat, and athleticism to help them come to a conclusion. There are some 20 year old pitchers who have been weightlifting for 3 or 4 years and are so physically developed that it is difficult to project any velocity improvement from maturation.
But on the other hand, scouts have seen high school pitchers weighing lbs. Adding mph on their fastball as they gain weight and strength in pro baseball. The problem is, strength and maturity does not insure added velocity, so this is purely speculative, or "playing a hunch. Arm action and fastball grades are perhaps the two most important evaluations.
Arm action evaluations are important because they will tell a team if there is a "better than average" chance of a future injury, because of how the players arm works. With that being said, your bat will have to play better than average.
You need to hit. At second base, they are looking to see your hit tool, do you have any power, and how does your defense play. The swing has to be simple. Not a lot of extra stuff in swing. They want to see looseness in swing. They want to see how it comes off the bat. Consistency is huge — strikeout to BB ratio is huge — can you square up a ball and do you know the strike zone and have an approach? There are some things that scare scouts when evaluating hitters. A big one is swing and miss.
What does his arm action and delivery look like? Can he repeat his mechanics? What kind of athlete is he? They will dig into the background of a pitcher to find things like: does he have a personal pitching coach; does he throw all year long; what makes him tick on the mound?
What kind of bullpen routine does he have? They are also evaluating whether a pitching prospect will be a starter or have to go to the bullpen in professional baseball, by observing the ease of how the mechanics work because that will help you stay in starting rotation at the next level. The pitchers who have good feel of a changeup stand out because that helps them move through a minor league system quicker.
A pitcher does not necessarily have to have a swing and miss pitch, to be drafted. If he has average pitches, command is superior in order for the average stuff to play.
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