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Tournaments  | Story  | 7/21/2016

16u BCS Finals Day 3 Scout Notes

Brandon Hohl     


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Uncommitted center fielder of the Florida Stealth Red, Matthew Restivo (2018, Boynton Beach, Fla.), begins our coverage for Day 3 of the 16u BCS Finals. Restivo is built with a skinny frame and has plenty of room to grow. The unranked outfield prospect stands at the plate with an upright, narrow stance with rhythm in the hands. He shifts his weight to engage the rear leg, strides forward while the hands stay back, creating a lot of elastic tension and torque. Matthew shows really impressive bat speed especially for his size. The righthanded hitter also gets out of the box well registering a 4.34-second time down the line on a fielder’s choice and a 4.59 turn on a line drive single. Restivo may be undersized but he shows off his athleticism in all aspects of his game. He’s really aggressive on the basepaths and can cover a lot of ground in the outfield.

An interesting prospect on the Florida Stealth Red is uncommitted infielder, Tahnaj Thomas (2017, Bahamas). Thomas, is tall and lean with a lot of room to fill on his body. He plays third base with the actions of a middle infielder and has impressive arm strength. At the plate, Thomas has his feet shoulder width apart and a very open stance. He has rhythm in his legs and hands, rocking the barrel which he holds vertical. To start his swing Thomas gathers weight in to the rear leg, strides forward while taking his hands up and back to launch, landing in a torqued position. He shows good bat speed and lower half mechanics, landing with his upper body over the plate, rear leg in power-L, and a locked out lead leg.

Uncommitted shortstop of the Florida Stealth Red, Raynel Delgado (2018, Miami Lakes, Fla.) has had a great tournament at the plate and showed why he's a Perfect Game Underclass prospect. The switch hitting shortstop stands with his feet slightly open and a tall, narrow stance, keeping his hands above the shoulder with the bat held flat. Delgado begins his swing with a gather to the rear leg, tips the barrel while striding slightly open. He has a good bat path that works up to the ball with speed. His stance and mechanics are nearly identical from both sides of the plate and it’s hard to find any difference in his barrel path as well. He does not have a lot of power but I think Delgado understands that and it shows in the type of results he has at the plate. Rarely have I seen him fly out back-to-back times at the plate and at this point he should not be trying to drive the ball in the air. He works a line drive launch angle, scattering the ball wherever he wants to and racking up hit after hit. As he stands right now he’s undersized at shortstop but definitely has the actions to stay in the middle in the future.

Facing off against the Florida Stealth Red was the Houston Banditos-Lalima and on the mound for the Banditos was top 500 prospect Brandon Deskins (2018, Friendswood, Texas). The lefthanded pitcher has a lean and wiry frame, long limbs and plenty of room to fill on the body. Deskins begins his motion with a high leg kick with internal rotation that creates a lot of torque in the rear leg; the hands come up with leg kick, separating his hands high leading to long arm swing. Brandon then takes a long stride to the plate, creating a power-T with the throwing-arm swing and glove-arm swing, generating arm speed to a high three-quarters release. The high effort, lefthanded pitcher really struggled with command in his short outing. When he did find the strike zone his fastball showed a lot of movement and arm-side run, reaching up to 86 mph. He occasionally threw developing curveball at 70 mph.

Over at the CenturyLink Sports Complex, Top Tier showed an impressive top of the order of Andrew Wilhite (2018, Byron, Ill.) and Chase Stanke (2018, Sugar Grove, Ill.). Wilhite played shortstop and led off the Top Tier lineup. He has an upright torso, feet shoulder width apart, and holds the bat at a 45-degree angle above the shoulder. Has a simple load and stride that creates torque in the body, although I don’t see a lot of bat speed. His barrel finds the ball because of his path to the ball. He made a nice play on the run at shortstop with nice footwork and a quick release. Wilhite ended the game 3-for-4 with a triple and two RBI and is hitting .600 for the tournament.

Top Tier catcher and top 1,000 player, Chase Stanke, had a productive day at the plate as well. With a wide stance, hands back over the shoulder, and the bat at 45-degrees, Stanke gathers into the rear leg then stride-separates, as the barrel tips towards the pitcher at a high launch position behind the shoulder. Stanke lands in to a bent lead leg, which loads the hips for extension, and keeping the front shoulder coiled he puts his body in a strong torqued position. He showed good bat speed and path up to the ball. He finished the game with 2-for-3 and three RBI.

In between innings of the Top Tier game I was able to see Xtreme Navy and Bottom of the Ninth play on an adjacent CenturyLink field. Sean Osceola (2018, Okeechobee, Fla.) is big and strong athlete with a wide stance, back elbow up, and rhythm in the barrel. He gathers to the rear leg, then has a short and simple linear stride as his hands separate as the body moves forward creating elastic tension. The elastic tension leads to bat speed and path with his body working up to the ball. Osceola puts all of his weight in to the lead leg, finishing with explosive hips and strong lower half finish.

Finally, I saw an impressive relief outing during the third slot of games at the 5-Plex. Zane Argott (2017, Delray Beach, Fla.) of the Florida Stealth Red came in for two innings of work and held back the Frozen Ropes offense. In the stretch, Zane has a closed setup with a locked out lead leg with the rear leg slightly bent and loaded. He uses a high leg lift with internal rotation that creates torque in the rear leg. Zane then takes a long stride to the plate synced with a long arm swing that results in a low three-quarters release point. Throwing an occasional fastball at 83 mph, his most impressive pitch was his slider. Working out of the same fastball plane and with the same fastball arm action, Argott threw his slider at 70 mph. The 10-to-4 shaped slider had late, sharp sweeping movement and registered an impressive 2400 rpm per TrackMan. It was a really impressive outing for Zane finishing with two innings pitched and six strikeouts.
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