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College  | Story | 4/19/2018

College Notebook: April 19

Photo: Brady Singer (Tim Casey)



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During the season Perfect Game scouts will be traveling to some of the top series to watch the very best players in college baseball. Those observations, captured with both written notes and video, will be shared in the College Player Database as linked above, notes that can also be accessed on the players' individual PG profile pages. Throughout the season select reports will be shared in feature format to promote the players, the teams and college baseball as a whole.
 

Brady Singer, RHP, Florida


 
Florida's ace and likely first round draft choice Brady Singer came into 2018 with a great deal of potential 1:1 type hype, and while he's not that, he's still a very good potential mid-first rounder from our perspective with a fair degree of safety of reaching the major leagues, especially if he's moved to the bullpen. Singer was very good against Kentucky on Thursday in Lexington, throwing seven strong innings, allowing two runs on three hits and one walk while striking out 10. A good number of those K's were swinging strikeouts, against one of the premier offenses in college baseball. 

He's a solidly-built, highly athletic righthander with an unorthodox mechanical profile, but it certainly works for him, as he's been one of college baseball's premier starting arms for two seasons now. Working from the extreme first base side of the rubber, Singer takes a very quick, somewhat elongated and entirely horizontal drop step, barely allowing that front foot to touch the ground before bringing it up into his leg lift, loading back into his back hip with a bit of coil. The front leg and front arm shoot out simultaneously, with his naval being the "corner" of what looks like a right angle. This, while certainly unorthodox, surely adds a significant amount of deception from a hitter's perspective. 

The arm action is very quick, with plus arm speed, though also with some mechanical concerns.There's some length to the stroke with a bit of a plunged takeaway, really pinching his shoulder blades together (scapular load) to get the arm up, and the back elbow creeps up a bit as well, before releasing from a lower three-quarters arm slot. The arm slot is ever so slightly higher than it was in 2017, which has aided the development of both his slider and changeup, but has also sacrificed a bit of the sink he had generated previously. 

The fastball worked 92-94 mph in the first inning before settling more 90-92 for the duration, as he was still touching 92 in his final inning of work. The pitch is highlighted by plus sink, which is good of course, but it's not quite to the level it has been. It's a tough pitch to square up on it's own and Singer aids it by consistently working down in the zone with it while creating good angles to the plate. 

His slider is a pretty fringy pitch in terms of consistency, showing 55 (on the 20-80 scale) early on when he let a few rip, but more consistently in the 45 range as he was content to flip it in for strikes. He's got very good command of the pitch and is extremely comfortable with it, throwing it frequently in any count against any hitter. It's effective right now, as he's able to get swings-and-misses at times with it, but the projection of the pitch is questionable as well as the future effectiveness of it. It has the potential to be an above average pitch, but there's not much in the way of a vertical break axis, and it's also not overly sharp. The command and feel for the pitch are both very good, but the overall potential of the pitch as a bat-misser at the Major League level is concerning. 

His changeup, quite frankly, was better than his slider in terms of swing-and-miss, generating very good fade on the pitch with excellent deception in the 84-86 mph range. It has a chance to be a real weapon against lefthanded hitters and it's easy to see how the ever-so-slightly raised arm slot has aided the development of the pitch. 

On the whole, Singer is a first round talent that projects to be taken in the middle of the first round right now, and he could go higher than that given his performance history. There's at least a small chance for Singer to have success at the Major League level as a starting pitcher, but there aren't many MLB starters with his delivery and arm action, and flipping in a 78 mph slurve for strikes isn't going to fool MLB hitters as it does college hitters. While he may profile best currently as a late-inning reliever, he will be given ever opportunity to start and has a very special arm to build off of pitching off of his fastball.


Zach Haake, RHP, Kentucky



In the 5-6 weeks since the last viewing of Haake he has been moved from the bullpen to the starting rotation as a potential answer to the rotation question raised by Zack Thompson's injury. Haake hasn't fared well as a starter, which likely has cemented his perceived long-term role as a reliever, but he's still starting for UK. In what ended up being a planned "pen day," Haake threw two innings as scheduled and was absolutely dominant for those 28 pitches, striking out three and not allowing a baserunner. 

There are two reports available on Haake from this season already, both of which include more detailed mechanical brekdowns. Haake is a long, lean, projectable righthander with a longer, looser arm stroke that can be mistimed, but the delivery is pretty clean and there's athleticism present in his profile. So while it hasn't worked thus far, there's still plenty of reason to remain sufficiently intrigued by Haake's starter potential moving forward. 

He worked 92-95 mph across his two innings against Florida, spotting up the fastball down in the zone without much life but with steep plane, getting several strike calls at the hollow of the knees, a pitch that's all but impossible to lift when commanded there. The fastball command was solid average, not consistently getting the ball where he wanted it but doing a good job of being close. 

His breaking ball is a bit harder to define, as it's difficult to determine if he's throwing two distinct breaking balls or just messing around with the shape of a slider. It varied from 79-84 mph, going from more of a traditional 11-to-5, deep-breaking curveball look that has power depth and spin to a sharper, more horizontal slider look. Regardless, both variations of the pitch (or both pitches) were good, and it's within reason to project plus there. The changeup, while a bit firm, was dynamic, a plus pitch on this day with excellent fading action, getting swings-and-misses over the top of it from lefthanded hitters. 

There's significant risk to Haake's profile right now, given his issues as a starting pitcher at Kentucky along with some inconsistencies as a starter at John A. Logan (junior college) last year. There are serious flashes of three plus pitches along with command, and in a vacuum (such as the two innings today), he looks like a first rounder. However, those inconsistencies and stretches of struggling at times keep the reliever tag a likely on for him, and as such his draft stock is a bit more in limbo. Haake is currently projected to be selected late in the third round but it's within reason to see him go anywhere in rounds 2-5 at this point. The rest of the spring will be very big for him.




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