Hagen Smith @hagensmith32
LHP Arkansas
2022 Arkansas stats - 20/15 GM/ST, 7-2, 4.66, 77.1-IP, 90-K
11-2-22 - 2024 MLB DRAFT - TOP 50 COLLEGE PROSPECTS
https://www.prospectslive.com/prospects-live/2022/1/15/2023-mlb-draft-prospects-fn7a2-afbw9?s=03
12 LHP
Hagen Smith
Arkansas
Smith famously threw six no-hitters his senior year of high school, completely dominating the competition. That continued at Arkansas his freshman year, slicing and dicing up the competition with flashes of brilliance. The book on Smith is deception.
His delivery makes it extremely difficult to pick up his pitches out of the hand. It's a herky-jerky, full-limbed delivery with moving parts, but that's not to say it's full of effort or that it isn't repeatable. It is. It's just unconventional with extreme angle. Smith throws the kitchen sink. A four-seam fastball, a sinker, a slider, curveball and a changeup.
He evenly distributes those pitches too; advanced beyond his years. The weapon is the changeup, a massive fading parachute that tormented righties in 2022. Smith doesn't spin the ball particularly well, so improving that may be a developmental goal, but he projects a crafty lefty that lives in the low-90s, mixing up his arsenal and keeping hitters off-balance with deception and two-plane dance moves.
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