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College  | Story  | 3/3/2019

College Notes: March 3

Britt Smith     
Photo: Jonathan Childress (Texas A&M Athletics)

College Notes: March 1 | March 2 | Scout Takes: Oregon State | UCLA | Georgia Tech | College Player Database

Player covered: Jonathan Childress (Texas A&M), Devon Roedahl (Houston), Cody Bradford (Baylor), Jared Janczak (TCU).




Jonathan Childress, Texas A&M
Texas A&M has a pretty unique, and incredibly talented, weekend rotation and pitching staff in general. All three weekend starts at the Shriners College Classic were lefthanded, and what makes it unique is how the three stack up by draft year. Junior John Doxakis started on Friday and he's a top couple round draft talent in 2019. Sophomore Asa Lacy started on Saturday and he looks like a first rounder for 2020. And finally, true freshman Jonathan Childress, a 2017 Perfect Game All-American, started on Sunday and looks like one of the top college arms in the way-too-early 2021 draft prognostications.

Childress was pulled from the game as he was warming up for the fourth inning and head coach Rob Childress referred to it as forearm tightness, per Baseball America's Ted Cahill. There is some worry about that in Aggieland, to be sure, though nothing will be known for sure about the severity until further tests are done this week. 

For the first three innings, however, Childress was very good. With excellent size and physicality, Childress is already built like a weekend starter in the SEC, and the returns on his performance and stuff were both very good before the injury. 

Working from the third base side of the rubber, Childress coils back a bit over the rubber and shows his back at least partially to the hitter, before rotating well through his hips and core and driving downhill well off of his back side. He does a very good job of getting his body online to the plate and the arm stroke is likewise pretty inline through the back. There's some length to the stroke but the timing is good and the arm action as a whole is relatively clean and easy. He creates excellent angle to the plate from a high three-quarters slot as well. 

The stuff was solid, as Childress worked in the 89-92 mph range with his fastball, showing the ability to move the pitch to both sides of the plate while working down in the zone consistently. The pitch is on the straight side but he does a very good job of offsetting that by consistently coming to the plate with good angle. He worked in an average cutter in the 85-86 mph range, but his preferred off-speed pitch was the slider, thrown in the 80-82 mph range and often flashing 55 on the 20-80 scale. 

It was a brief look leading up to an unfortunate injury that we won't know the scope of for a few days at least, but in the vacuum of this three-inning look, Childress looked like a high-draft follow for the 2021 draft class. Although that was expected given his prospect billing coming out of high school.


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