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General | Professional | 1/12/2016

Jupiter star signs with Dodgers

Daron Sutton Jheremy Brown

Photo: Perfect Game

The video above was taken at the 2015 WWBA World Championship from Jupiter, Fla., with Yaisel Sierra, who reportedly has signed a six-year deal with the Dodgers worth more than $30 million.

The following video is a snippet of his three-inning performance from that appearance in Jupiter, along with the corresponding scouting report from Jheremy Brown from the Day 1 recap of the event.

To say that international free agent and Cuban righthander Yaisel Sierra drew a crowd at the Roger Dean Stadium might be an understatement as scouts crammed into the section behind home plate to grab a first hand look. The crowd was to be expected however as there were reports circulating about a loose armed, mid-90s free agent who hasn’t been seen much stateside.

With every warmup toss pregame being closely monitored just as his bullpen was and eventual game throws, Sierra proved those prior reports true as he came out firing and certainly has teams lining up with offers in their pockets. Sierra stands close to 6-foot-1 and though there’s already present strength to his frame there’s also projection remaining on the loose and quick-twitch righthander. He came out and immediately showed what the scouts and directors were hoping to see as he warmed up steadily at 92-93 mph in the bottom of the first before sitting 94-95 while bumping 96s in the next two subsequent innings. The velocity was what you were hoping to see but it was how he generated it and the command he showed of it that were just as noteworthy.

Sierra worked with a full arm action through the back side before coming to a traditional three-quarters arm slot while consistently getting on top of the ball which not only allowed him to fill up the strike zone but work both sides of the plate. Pitching mostly of his mid-90s four-seam fastball, Sierra also mixed in a handful of two-seamers in the low-90s that featured late running life that could get in on the hands of righthanded hitters. Showing some whip to his arm action at release Sierra showed little problem holding the velocity over his three innings and looked almost as though he was gaining steam each inning, working to his glove side well and continued to missed bats with his slider that showed plus.

The slider was a pitch that simply overmatched the opposing hitters and proved to be a steady swing-and-miss pitch. Sierra did a nice job of repeating his release point and arm speed on the 87-88 mph slider with late tilting life and occasional two-plane break. Though he didn’t show a third pitch against batters, Sierra did flash an 87-88 mph changeup in between innings that showed running life to his arm side.

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