18 year old SP, projected:

Durability: 8
Health: 82
Makeup: 90

Stam: 98
Con: 84
vL: 100
vR: 75
Vel: 100
GB: 69

Pitches: 68, 87, 55

Thoughts?

I'm wondering if the durability will be OK paired with such high stamina. The vR split is just a hair above league average but the vL and the velocity are exceptional. Pitches are just meh.



7/27/2015 7:46 PM (edited)

What's your budget that you're seeing these projections through?

The durability can be a problem.  To use him as a starter, you will need to keep his pitches per game down, probably in the 60-65 range if you want to try to have him go every 5th day, and even with that, he'll have to skip a turn in the rotation occasionally.  So you're talking about maybe a 5 inning starter.

I've used guys like this out of the bullpen, but not with a whole lot of success.

You probably already know this, but the vsR is much more important than the vsL split, as around 60-65% of the hitters he faces will be RH.  I'm assuming he's a LHP based on the high vsL split.

And you're right about the "meh" pitches.  (87,68,55) would have been marginally better.  Even an average 4th pitch would help.

7/27/2015 7:58 PM
16 so somewhat accurate. I think im going to move him down my list. My formula builder throws him up towards the top.
7/27/2015 8:32 PM
The May update added more fuzziness to draft prospects and projections.  So the "new" 16m is less accurate than the "old" 16m.

Not sure what else you see on your board, but it looks like you have the #2 pick in the draft, and he's not a #2 overall quality prospect, so it's probably a good idea to move him down.
7/27/2015 8:46 PM

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