LHP 6-5 190 Oklahoma
2020 Oklahoma stat line - did not play
11-11-20 - Prospects Live Top 300 Prospect List -
174. Dalton Fowler - LHP
Bio:
Height: 6-6
Weight: 202 lbs
Hits/Throws: L-L
Hometown: Arlington, TN
School: Oklahoma
Transferring into Oklahoma from Northwest Mississippi College. Fastball is a heavy low 90s now from the left side with big exension on a big frame. Curveball shows good vMOV and changeup is fringy currently. Command has been an issue, but is ticking up. Not an overpowering arm, but falls in the bucket of effectively wild punching big strikeout numbers along the way.
2019 (Freshman): Drafted by the New York Mets in the 27th round of the 2019 MLB Draft...first team All-MACJC selection that started 13 games for the Rangers, finishing 6-2 with a 3.76 ERA...struck out 88 batters against 43 walks...threw a pair of complete games against Gulf Coast and Hinds, combining for 17 strikeouts...in his debut at Copiah-Lincoln on Feb. 25, struck out 12 batters in 5.0 innings of work while earning the victory...earned his only shutout in a complete game win at Hinds on April 14...rated within MLB Pipeline's Top 200 draft prospects during the 2019 season...originally committed to Ole Miss, but later signed with Oklahoma in Nov. 2019...off the field, earned Academic All-MACJC honors.
9. LHP Dalton Fowler, Oklahoma
Bat: L. Throw: L. 6’5″, 190 lbs. Born 1/7/2000. Hometown: Arlington, TN
2019-2020 (@ NW Miss. CC): 10-2, 3.33 ERA, 1.37 WHIP, 127/53 K/BB in 83.2 IP.
Despite losing all three weekend starters to the draft last year in Cade Cavalli (Nationals, first round), Levi Prater (Cardinals, third round), and Dane Acker (A’s, fourth round), plus its top pitching recruit in Dax Fulton (Marlins, second round), Oklahoma is bringing in a really talented pitching staff this year. A big reason for that is Northwest Mississippi CC transfer Dalton Fowler, who actually is actually a fairly similar pitcher to Fulton. Fowler was very inconsistent as a freshman in Senatobia, but was off to a hot start in 2020 with 39 strikeouts to just 20 baserunners allowed in 19 innings, and he could have been a sixth to tenth round draft pick in a normal draft. Instead, the Memphis-area native will head west to Norman and look to put it all together.
Like top recruit turned Miami Marlin Dax Fulton, Dalton Fowler is a lanky fastball-curveball lefty. He’s variously listed at 6’5″ or 6’6″ and at less than 200 pounds, he’s a true stringbean. Fowler’s fastball sits in the low 90’s and he’s gotten better at maintaining that velocity, so scouts are looking to see if he can push the upper end as well as he continues to fill out that big frame. In the past, his curveball has fluctuated between below average and above average, but he’s gotten more consistent with the pitch and is flashing more above average breakers. There’s a changeup as well that’s coming along, and his command has improved from 40 grade to 45 grade. There is still considerable work to be done, but Fowler is extremely projectable and slowly but steadily trending in the right direction, and if Oklahoma’s coaching staff can help him put it all together, he has real impact starter potential. Consider him the high ceiling, low floor name in this group.
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