Catcher Ralph Velazquez of Huntington Beach has had some first-round buzz after a strong showing early in the spring and the general lack of catching in this draft class, although he was disappointing in my look against Bitonti’s squad.MLB teams love to go over slot for multi-sport athletes, but in the NLI era, Gray may actually be better off going to school and trying to answer questions about the hit tool. His profile is similar to Jordyn Adams’ from 2018, but Adams, who went 17th overall to the Angels and has not performed well above Low A in his career, had a simpler swing. His swing is crude and can get very long, while he also doesn’t have anywhere near the baseball experience of other high school players in this draft because he’s spent summers and falls playing football. Gray committed to UCLA for football and baseball in April of 2022 and is a standout wide receiver prospect with exactly the kind of build you’d expect in such an athlete. Norco second baseman/outfielder Grant Gray was the big breakout player of the Boras Classic, showing 80 speed and a fast bat, although he looked out of place at second and isn’t as advanced a hitter as some of his peers in the event.
He’s a Virginia commit, which is perhaps not the ideal place for a prospect who needs swing changes, based on recent history. Swing overhauls are not ordinary fixes, but there are teams that have had success in this department, and someone could decide to bet on Farmelo’s athleticism, speed, and hand-eye while figuring anything they can do to loosen him up at the plate will help. (This is a good thing.) He bars his lead arm about as badly as I’ve seen on any prospect in years, and then his finish looks like someone tried to do launch-angle optimization with him and cut off his finish, so there’s no impact even though he looks strong enough to do damage on contact. It’s an elitist approach - no, not that one, not good enough, I don’t like that either - until he gets a pitch he approves of. Farmelo fouled off at least ten pitches, most of this off Eldridge, in Wednesday’s game, having Pedroia-like at-bats where he’d fall behind early and then just keep fouling off pitches close to the zone until he got something he liked.
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His swing does get long and he made some weak contact as well that night, especially on pitches further away, and I think a pro environment will help him get more power from his legs rather than having him rely so much on his wrists.
Eldridge does show enormous power, unloading on one pitch on Wednesday night for a huge home run that left the field like a process server was chasing it.
Eldridge gets comparisons to Spencer Jones, the Yankees’ first-round pick last year out of Vanderbilt, as Jones is also 6-foot-7 and a left-handed hitter who was a two-way player in high school before an elbow injury pushed him to work full-time as a position player.
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