UPDATED RESEARCH - 2023 Draft Prospect - LHP - Sean Sullivan

 

Sean Sullivan 

LHP          Wake Forest

 

12-2-22 - 2022 Fall Report: Wake Forest - https://d1baseball.com/fall-report/2022-wake-forest/?goal=0_98c95d11a2-2375b409ba-536911606&mc_cid=2375b409ba&mc_eid=b3ee91b95b -

 

Another lefthander, Northwestern transfer Sean Sullivan, is extreme outlier in another metric.

 

“He’s really unique,” Muscara said. “It’s a low release height, like 4-foot-10, 4-11 release height, almost sidearm lefty, but carries it almost 18 inches of induced vertical, so huge uphill approach angle. He’s 89-92 and touching 93, pretty good feel for a changeup and a slider. He started last year as Friday night guy as a true freshman. It’s a good changeup and pretty good slider but he just ripped all heaters because it’s such a good fastball. He’s like 6-4, very loose, and very, very unique — analytically he’s like the definition of a unicorn, a low release height rise from a low release height. By comparison, Josh Hader is 5-3 release height and carrying 18, one of the more unique uphill approach angle fastballs in the game. Sullivan’s is even lower; now it’s not 98 mph, but it’s still in the 90s.”

 

Sullivan is certainly capable of starting, as he showed by posting a 4.45 ERA with 78 strikeouts and 25 walks in 64.2 innings over 13 starts as a true freshman at Northwestern. But if Lowder, McGraw and Hartle all stay healthy, it’s unlikely any of them coming out of the weekend rotation, so Sullivan could wind up as a high-leverage reliever in order to get him into action in crucial weekend games.

 

10-16-22 - 2023 MLB Draft: an early look at the ACC

http://dugoutedgebaseball.blogspot.com/2022/10/2023-mlb-draft-early-look-at-acc.html?m=1&s=03 -

 

Deep Sleeper: Wake Forest is pulling in a very interesting young lefty named Sean Sullivan, who posted a 4.45 ERA and a 78/25 strikeout to walk ratio over 64.2 innings at Northwestern in 2022. He draws many similarities to Miami's (now the Rockies') Carson Palmquist as a true sidearm lefty that gets by more on command than stuff, sitting around 90 with his fastball while adding a sweeping slider and a plus changeup. I'm very excited to see what happens at Wake Forest's pitching lab over the offseason and he could be primed for a big time breakout.

 

7-28-22 - https://www.prospectslive.com/prospects-live/2022/1/15/2023-mlb-draft-prospects -

 

120 LHP

Sean Sullivan

Wake Forest

Sullivan, a Northwestern transfer, is a long, gangly lefty with limbs flying at you. Sullivan has a funky delivery that may end up in a bullpen at the pro level, but he can fill up the strikezone and punch hitters out as good as anyone in the country. The fastball works up into the low-90s with armside run, commanded well to both sides of the plate. His secondaries are the calling card with a sweeping slider and a diabolical changeup that really parachutes away from righty sticks.

 

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