Mack – Draft News – Antonio Velez, Cade Cavalli, Stephen Schoch, Garrett Crochet, Zach Pettway

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16. Antonio Velez, LHP, Florida State

In just two seasons at FSU, Velez established a reputation as a pitcher who would come up big in the biggest moments. The best outing of his 2019 season, for example, might have come in the super regional against Louisiana State, as the lefty threw 4.2 scoreless innings with six strikeouts.

He continued that in the small sample that was the 2020 season. In his last outing of the season, a midweek start at No. 1 Florida, Velez threw six scoreless innings, giving up one hit and two walks with seven strikeouts.

 

 

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8. Cade Cavalli, RHP –Oklahoma

If you’re a Baseball Things subscriber you got the full deal on Cavalli when I mocked him in the Top 10 last week.

He’s a strong, sturdy, 6-foot-4 and 220 pounds and is 92-96 mph with an above-average slider, average curveball and a changeup that flashes. He’s a very good athlete — he was a two-way player until this season at Oklahoma and hasn’t take on a big workload since he didn’t pitch full-time before 2020 and didn’t start pitching until high school.

The delivery is clean and allows for easy velocity and some deception. He lacks ideal control and command grades at present time, which could hold some clubs back, and he’s had a few injuries — albeit not as a full-time pitcher, and he hasn’t had any ‘pitcher’ type injuries — but everything else suggests a Top-10 talent with No. 2 upside.

He reminds me a little bit of Kevin Gausman, who went No. 4 overall to the Orioles in 2012.

 

 

https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/top-25-seniors-we-want-to-see-in-college-baseball-in-2021/         -

17. Stephen Schoch, RHP, Virginia

A likable personality who could also get it done on the field, Schoch had a great deal of success as a reliever at Maryland-Baltimore County in 2018 and 2019, putting up a 2.61 ERA over 110.1 innings.

In 2020, Schoch used his previous success as a springboard to grad transfer to Virginia and live out a lifelong dream of pitching for the Cavaliers, with whom he continued to shine. In 16.2 innings, he had a 1.62 ERA, a 24-to-5 strikeout-to-walk ratio and a .167 opponent batting average.

 

 

https://www.sny.tv/mets/news/5-pitching-prospects-mets-could-target-in-2020-mlb-draft/313404994  -

            LHP Garrett Crochet - Tennessee

At 20 years old, Crochet should move through a system a lot faster than any of the prep arms in the draft. And his arsenal is tantalizing.

According to his MLB Pipeline scouting report, the 6-foot-6 lefty has a fastball that sat between 96 and 100 mph during the fall.

MLB Pipeline scouting report snippet: For a 6-foot-6 pitcher, Crochet does a nice job of keeping his long levers in sync and providing strikes. Scouts like his delivery and arm action, though he still needs to refine his command to make the most of his overpowering stuff.

 

 

Draft Site’s 3^rd round pick for the Mets –

          Zach Pettway          RHP                UCLA       6-1      210

          2020

UCLA's Opening Day starter for the consecutive season, made four starts as a true junior ... Was 3-0 with a 1.05 ERA, 29 strikeouts, and just one walk over 25 2/3 innings ... Rated as the No. 1 junior pitcher in the country per D1Baseball's analytical rankings and the No. 11 starting pitcher overall in their 2020 positional power rankings ... Named the Pac-12's "Most Impressive Pitcher" by D1Baseball ... Had a .141 batting average against and 0.56 WHIP ... Led the team in innings, strikeouts, and K-BB ratio ... Nationally, ranked third in strikeout-to-walk ratio, sixth in walks per nine innings (0.35), and seventh in WHIP ... Had the sixth-best ERA among qualifying Pac-12 pitchers ... Didn't allow a run in two of his four starts, and allowed two or fewer in all four of his outings ... Named Pac-12 Pitcher of the Week in back-to-back weeks; after giving up three hits and striking out 13 in 6 2/3 shutout innings against St. Mary's on Feb. 21 and after limiting Oklahoma State to two hits over seven scoreless frames on Feb. 28 ... First Bruin to repeat as Pac-12 Pitcher of the Week since Trevor Bauer in 2011 ... His 13 strikeouts against SMC were tied for the second-most by a Bruin pitcher in a single game since 2012, trailing only Ryan Garcia's 14 vs. Utah in 2019 ... D1Baseball's 2020 Preseason Pac-12 Pitcher of the Year ... Struck out eight and allowed just two earned runs in his first start of the year, an eventual 4-2 Bruin win over UC Riverside ... UCLA was 4-0 in his starts ... Closed the year by helping UCLA defeat defending national champion and No. 2-ranked Vanderbilt, as he limited the Commodores to three hits and one earned run over six innings ... Joined an elite list of recent Bruins to make multiple Opening Day starts including Gerrit Cole, Adam Plutko, and James Kaprielian ... Named to the Director's Honor Roll for fall and winter (quarter GPA of 3.0 or higher and pass at least 12 units).