2025 Draft Prospect - RHP - Patrick Forbes - Louisville

 

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PATRICK FORBES, RHP - louisville

Prospects Live Ranking - #59

Patrick Forbes is another intriguing arm for the 2025 draft.  Though only logging 29 innings for Louisville last spring, Forbes has premium arm strength on the mound.  It’s no secret, he goes after hitters with his fastballs as he threw it 77% of the time in 2024.  Forbes’s four-seam fastball is violent, ranking 97th percentile in velocity as well as the 98th percentile in spin rate amongst all Division I.  It ranges from 92-95, topping out at 97, that generates both run and ride.  Forbes also incorporates a two-seam fastball that gets more sink inducing weak contact and is tough for batters to get their barrel around.  His best off-speed pitch is an upper 70’s slider, a plus offering that generates tremendous sweep.  It’s one of the best sliders in the ACC, producing a 41% whiff rate and holding opposing hitters to a .143 average.  Forbes also throws an upper 80’s changeup to lefties, though it’s not often and lacks consistency with the pitch.  A member of the Brewster Whitecaps this past summer, he pitched just over 13 innings, recording 22 strikeouts and limiting hitters to a .167 batting average.  Anticipate Forbes to step another step forward in 2025 that would make him a compelling  name to follow for the 2025 draft.

 

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2024: Made 12 appearances on the mound with four starts ... Finished 0-1 with a 3.72 ERA ... Struck out 32 in 29.0 innings ... Made the first start of his career on Feb. 25 against St. Bonaventure, allowing two runs in a career long three innings of work ... Struck out a career-high six over four innings with just one run allowed against Youngstown State on March 3 ... Missed a month with a hand injury after being hit by a pitch ... Threw 1.2 scoreless innings with two strikeouts in his first outing back from injury at Miami on April 21 ... Struck out four while recording the final seven outs for the save at Boston College on May 2 ... Tossed three scoreless innings out of the bullpen at North Carolina on May 11 ... Threw a career long five innings, allowing two runs against Miami on May 21 in pool play of the ACC Championship.

 

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University of Louisville sophomore Patrick Forbes has received an invitation to the 2024 USA Baseball Collegiate National Team Training Camp later this month in Cary, N.C.

Working solely as a pitcher this spring, Forbes turned in a strong season on the mound. The sophomore made 12 appearances with four starts, posting a 3.72 ERA in 29 innings.

Forbes missed a month in the middle of the season with a hand injury but returned better than ever. In his eight appearances after the injury, the right-hander allowed just four runs in 17.2 innings (2.04 ERA) with 21 strikeouts and just 11 hits allowed.