Joseph
Acosta

Listed at 5-foot-11, 175-pounds, Acosta has a long, lean, wiry strong frame with squared shoulders and longer limbs that should continue to develop and fill out in the future. Don’t get the impression he’s done growing vertically as he has larger feet as well. Shows an athletic, repeatable delivery from a high 3/4 slot. Lands inline repeatedly and his arm speed is quick and consistent. Touched 87 with the fastball several times but lived comfortably at 85-86 with some movement to the arm side. Showed the ability to command the pitch by keeping it at or below the hitters knees consistently while moving it black-to-black. His slider at 71-74 (T76) has wipeout potential. It’s sharp with late biting action. He really let it go once when he touched 76 and the break on that one pitch was unlike any of the others giving a glimpse of what’s to come. Acosta showed some feel for a changeup at 83 mph. Most of the time is was a show me pitch and was fairly flat, there were however two times that he got some very good arm side run and sink on it.