Re: D'backs 2008 First-Year Free Agent Draft

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一些情報 http://tinyurl.com/3o7jzt Player Pos. B-T HT WT College B’date Daniel Schlereth LHP L-L 6-1 210 Arizona 5/9/1986 SCOUTING REPORT (3/1): Schlereth was in line to be the first college player from Arizona drafted last June, possibly as early as the second round, before he missed several weeks at mid-season with an oblique muscle pull on his non-throwing side. The original diagnosis indicated he might be lost for the season, but Schlereth returned sooner than expected and resumed his closer role. He struggled initially to regain his old form, but his velocity was soon back up to 91 mph—just shy of his pre-injury speed of 92-94—although it fluctuated amidst concerns that Schlereth was still not 100 percent healthy. Scouts indicated they wanted to see Schlereth in peak form before they were prepared to risk an early-round selection. He went 3-1, 2.68 with eight saves in 24 appearances with 47 strikeouts in 37 innings and ultimately went in the eighth round to Oakland but never really came close to signing with the A’s. Schlereth has a history of injuries as he missed his freshman year at Nevada-Las Vegas with Tommy John surgery. Ironically, he capitalized on an injury to the Wildcats 2006 closer, Mark Melancon, to make a name for himself at Arizona and he went into 2007 with heightened expectations. He was used as a setup man this spring on an extremely deep and talented Arizona pitching staff. There’s a lot to like about Schlereth. His fastball has topped at 95 in the past, his changeup is a solid-average pitch and he flashes an above-average slider. But he also struggles to throw his slider for strikes consistently. Scouts are also skeptical of his size, the consistency of his stuff and his ability to repeat his delivery. Schlereth is the son of former NFL lineman and current ESPN football analyst Mark Schlereth, who packed 280 pounds on his 6-foot-3 frame in his playing days—a stark contrast to his son’s 5-foot-11, 195-pound frame. Schlereth gets his quick, live arm—and his football mentality and closer mindset—from his father; his size from his mother.—ALLAN SIMPSO UPDATE (5/1): The time has finally come for Schlereth to make his push to professional baseball, and he couldn’t pick a better time. He was dominant this spring with a fastball at 92-93 mph, touching 96. He combined it with a power breaking ball and an above-average change, along with a significantly greater ability to repeat his delivery, to produce a 1-0, 1.97 record in 28 appearances. More telling was his 65 strikeouts in 46 innings and a .166 opponent batting average. Along with Ryan Perry (No. 3 above) and sophomore closer Jason Stoffel, he gave Arizona a third dominant arm at the end of its bullpen that should pitch in the big leagues one day. Schlereth projects as a situational lefthander at that level, capable of being used in one- to two-inning bursts.—AS Player Pos. B-T HT WT College B’date Wade Miley LHP R-L 6-2 195 SE Louisiana 11/13/1986 SCOUTING REPORT (3/1): Miley, a 20th-round draft pick of the Tampa Bay Rays in 2005, pitched better last summer in the Cape Cod League than his 1-6 record as his 2.61 ERA will attest, but he was very inconsistent all season. He was the equal of almost any pitcher in the league when he threw all three of his pitches—an 88-91 mph fastball, a slurvy slider with late break, and a major league average changeup—for strikes, but that was a rare occurrence. More often than not, he was undone by his control as he led the league with 34 walks in 59 innings. His fastball velocity also varied within a game, and would often drop as low as 85-88 mph. It has continued to show a wide range this spring, from a low of 88 to a high of 94, but his slider and changeup have been more consistently above average. His curve is a below-average offering, but scouts say he doesn’t throw it often enough. Miley may have paid the price last summer for a heavy workload in the spring at Southeastern Louisiana, where he went 7-5, 3.86 with 40 walks and 77 strikeouts in 96 innings.—ALLAN SIMPSON UPDATE (5/15): Miley was one of the busiest pitchers in college baseball this spring, going 7-3, 3.90 in 101 innings, with 119 strikeouts. He saw his draft stock gradually improve all spring as he was frequently in the 91-94 mph range, and maintained that velocity deep into pitch counts. Miley’s slider overmatched lefthanded hitters and his changeup will become a more frequent weapon for him in pro ball. Scouts are concerned about the mileage that Miley has put on his arm the past three years, but he’s a strong, mature athlete with good delivery mechanics and a clean injury history. He has the type of draft profile that will hold up as scouts get in their pre-draft meetings and start analyzing their draft lists in more detail.—DAVID RAWNSLEY Player Pos. B-T HT WT College B’date Bryan Shaw RHP R-R 6-1 210 Long Beach State 11/8/1987 SCOUTING REPORT (3/1): Shaw was dominant as a closer for Long Beach State as a sophomore, going 6-2, 2.39 with 11 saves, and continued to be effective in that role in the summer for Chatham of the Cape Cod League. He went 2-0, 3.15 with seven saves while striking out 34 and walking just seven in 20 innings, and limiting hitters to a .162 average. Scouts said he could have been even more effective if he had a better grasp of just how good he can be and was better prepared for his role. He can blow hitters away with a fastball in the 92-96 mph range but would often want to toy with a substandard split-finger, his third best pitch, or 80-84 mph slider. His slider has a tight, three-quarters plane and shows signs of being a dominant pitch. Shaw is generally around the plate with all his pitches.—ALLAN SIMPSON UPDATE (5/1): Shaw walked just five in 27 innings this spring, while striking out 33 and going 2-1, 1.32 with six saves. Long Beach State has had its share of pitchers drafted in the early rounds in the last 10 years and Shaw has as much arm speed as any of them. He just needs to develop better command, be more consistent in throwing first-pitch strikes with his secondary stuff and learn to pitch inside more. The 2008 draft is especially deep in college closers, and Shaw ranks with almost any of them.—AS Player Pos. B-T HT WT High School B’date Kevin Eichhorn RHP/SS B-R 6-1 170 Aptos 2/6/1990 SCOUTING REPORT (3/1): Eichhorn is the son of former major league righthander Mark Eichhorn, but bears little resemblance in style to his side-arm throwing father, who pitched in 563 big league games and has two World Series rings from the Toronto Blue Jays. Kevin has a standard high three-quarters release point that produces a low-90s fastball and a 75-mph curveball that is very deep and sharp. As a junior, he went 7-2, 1.05 with 89 strikeouts in 67 innings. Eichhorn also hit .452-6-49, is an excellent athlete and could easily become a shortstop at the major college level as well. He is one of many top 2008 prospects who played in the 2002 Little League World Series as a member of the Aptos (Calif.) team.—DAVID RAWNSLEY UPDATE (5/15): Eichhorn was very solid on the mound this spring and consistent with his past talent levels, and went 9-1 for a talented Aptos High team. His signature performance of the 2008 season was a 13-strikeout performance against Maryland’s Calvert Hall, ranked No. 1 in one national poll at the time, in the National Classic, the top in-season high school tournament in the country. Eichhorn also had two doubles and a home run in that game.—DR Player Pos. B-T HT WT College B’date Ryne White 1B/OF L-L 5-11 200 Purdue 10/17/1986 SCOUTING REPORT: White was one of the leading hitters in the country as a sophomore, hitting .452-8-47, but dropped down to .333-12-48 this spring. Scouts noticed a very pronounced effort on White’s part to put more lift in his swing and hit with more power, undoubtedly in response to concerns about his position/approach profile. White has very good hitting tools either way. His hand quickness is outstanding, and he has the ability to wait back on pitches and drive them to all fields. His walk-to-strikeout ratios have been excellent at all levels, and it was a tidy 35:21 this spring. In addition, White is a well-above average first baseman defensively despite being undersized, with good quickness and very soft hands.—DAVID RAWNSLEY Player Pos. B-T HT WT College B’date Collin Cowgill OF R-L 5-9 190 Kentucky 5/22/1986 SCOUTING REPORT (3/1): After hitting .308-16-60 on Kentucky’s Southeastern Conference championship team in 2006, Cowgill missed the 2007 college season because of surgery in February on a broken hamate bone. He was ready to play again before the end of the SEC season, but Kentucky coaches decided not to burn a red-shirt season for the sake of a handful of games. So he was itching to play last summer in the Cape Cod League and responded with an impressive .290-2-20 season. Though he was drafted in June by the Oakland A’s in the 29th round, he elected to return to Kentucky to repeat his junior season. Cowgill packs a lot of power in a smaller body but is very strong and plays much bigger than his size. He has a quick, short stroke with enough strength and bat speed to drive balls to all fields. He made adjustments last summer to eliminate a loop from his swing. He played an excellent center field defensively for league champion Yarmouth-Dennis. His speed and arm strength are also solid tools. —ALLAN SIMPSON UPDATE (5/15): A power/speed combination in a small package, Cowgill topped Kentucky in home runs (18) and stolen bases (23) this season while hitting .359 (entering NCAA tournament play). He also led the Wildcats with 48 walks and he stood out defensively in center field with his arm, speed and instincts. Though he had juice in his bat, ran the bases well, played solid defense and was the heart and soul of this year’s Wildcats team, scouts aren’t convinced Cowgill will be anything more than a fourth or fifth outfielder in pro ball. There’s concern that his power will translate effectively to wood, and his other tools will be playable at a faster level of competition.—AS Player Pos. B-T HT WT College B’date Justin Parker SS R-R 6-1 190 Wright State 3/14/1987 SCOUTING REPORT: Parker hit .379-5-38 with a school-record 26 doubles as an all-Horizon League shortstop in 2007, but he was essentially unknown to national-level scouts entering this season because he did not play summer ball. He injured his shoulder during his sophomore year at Wright State and had minor shoulder surgery at the end of the season, sidelining him for the summer. Along with first baseman Jeremy Hamilton, he was part of a potent tandem in the heart of the Wright State lineup this season, hitting .398-7-50. Though he’s not as pure a hitter as Hamilton, Parker may have more power potential and a number of the record total of doubles he hit a year ago turned into home runs this season . He may lack the speed, smooth actions and arm strength to remain at shortstop in the long team, but he should be an offensive second baseman in a worst-case scenario. He demonstrated the ability to hit with wood in BP sessions this spring. Scouts praise his makeup and willingness to play and work hard, and those attributes have enabled him to close the gap on his more naturally-talented brother Jarrod, the first-round pick (ninth overall) of the Arizona Diamondbacks in last year’s draft.—ALLAN SIMPSON Player Pos. B-T HT WT High School B’date Miles Reagan RHP R-R 6-1 160 El Capitan 11-16-90 SCOUTING REPORT (3/1): Reagan missed much of his junior season with a sore arm but came back late in the summer to put his name on the top prospect lists for 2008. The 6-foot-3, 190-pound righthander is slender and loose but has a lightning-quick arm action. He may have had the fastest arm of any pitcher at the Area Code Games. Reagan has some funk in the back of his arm stroke that will get scouts’ attention, but Reagan has topped out at 94 mph with an upper 70s slurve-type breaking ball, giving him two plus pitches.—DAVID RAWNSLEY UPDATE (5/15): Reagan jammed his right shoulder sliding head-first during a running drill early in the season. His pitching suffered, and he was throwing only in the mid-80s when scouts came through for the first time to see him. He bumped his velocity back up to around 90 later in the spring but it remains to be seen how scouts will judge him.—DR Player Pos. B-T HT WT College B’date Pat McAnaney LHP R-L 6-3 200 Virginia 3-11-86 SCOUTING REPORT: McAnaney’s 2007 season was compromised from the start when he broke his hand in January, punching a wall, and ended up working just 35 innings . He ended up becoming just a late-round pick. As one of Virginia’s three regular starters this season, he was solid and dependable every time out with excellent command of four pitches, including an 86-90 mph fastball with arm-side tail. His slider, which has hard bite in its downward rotation, was his primary out-pitch as he assembled a deceptive 4-5, 3.67 record, but a fine 25-92 walk-to-strikeout ratio in 81 innings. More than anything, he relies on command and pitchability for his success. He ranks as one of the better senior signs in the draft and could be a solid 5th-10th round selection. --ALLAN SIMPSON Player Pos. B-T HT WT Junior College B’date Brett Moorhouse RHP R-R 6-2 190 Indian River 6/28/1987 SCOUTING REPORT: After sitting out the 2006 season, Moorhouse gained little notoriety as a freshman reliever at Indian River JC, going just 4-1, 7.33 with 27 strikeouts in 27 innings. But when he added 10-15 pounds to his frame, tightened his mechanics, began pumping his fastball in the 88-93 mph range, touching 94, and was thrust into a starting role last fall, South Florida scouts knew they were on to something. They began attending his games in large numbers to start the 2008 season. They were impressed with his rangy body, arm action and improved arm strength. He’s always had a live arm and got more running action on his fastball this spring. His command also improved, and he developed a better feel for his straight changeup though he still has a tendency to tip his breaking pitch (a slider). In time, his changeup could become his best pitch. Moorhouse went a deceiving 3-7, 3.86 as he played in front of an often-porous defense, but his ratio of 22 walks and 86 strikeouts in 65 innings is more indicative of his ability.—ALLAN SIMPSON Player Pos. B-T HT WT High School B’date Danny Hultzen LHP L-L 6-2 185 St. Albans 11/28/1989 SCOUTING REPORT: Hultzen was unknown to area scouts—let alone national scouts —when he hooked up in an early-season game against St. Anne’s Belfield’s highly-publicized lefthander Kyle Long, the son of NFL Hall of Famer Howie Long and the top high school prospect in northern Virginia. With a large gathering of scouts there to see Long—and only Long—Hultzen stole the show and immediately became a hot topic in scouting circles. No player in this year’s draft, in fact, may have come from nowhere quite like Hultzen did. A year ago, he was primarily a soft-tossing lefthander with good pitchability. When he committed to Virginia in the November early-signing period, he seemed like as safe a best to attend school as anyone—particularly since he is a top student. But Hultzen added 10 mph to his fastball between his junior and senior seasons, and blossomed overnight into not only a legitimate prospect but potentially one of the best lefthanders in the country. His fastball was consistently in the 90-92 range, touching 93, over the course of the spring. His curve was also an above-average second pitch. Hultzen’s new-found stuff and his ability to command it enabled him to post an 11-0, 0.82 record this spring with 13 walks and 127 strikeouts in 66 innings. He capped his season by throwing a 12-strikeout shutout, leading St. Albans to the Independent Athletic Conference championship, culminating a 30-2 season for the school. All the attention Hultzen received this spring was so new and so unnerving for his family that they became determined not to get caught up in all the hype and adulation, and remained steadfast in their determination that Hultzen will attend school at Virginia. It will be interesting to see if a significant signing bonus will tempt the family to have a change of heart.—ALLAN SIMPSON -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 140.112.5.3