Luke
McNeillie

Florida Commit. 6-foot-3, 175 pounds. This flamethrower pitches like gazelles run, with perfect form, balance, grace, and explosiveness. But it wasn’t always like this, Luke has taken unbelievable strides since last February, where we had him at 86-89 with inconsistency in the delivery. To go from that to a top round draft prospect known for an ultra athletic delivery is absolutely shocking. Everything is just more clean and efficient. His gradual build of pace/momentum in the delivery and arm action, rhythm between upper & lower half, up+down+out phases, direction, I could go all day. When he squares up, it’s almost an identical delivery to Royals 100+ mph thrower of baseballs, Josh Staumont. I’ve got to be honest, McNeillie looks much much better at the same stage in his career. From what I see mechanically, this is a sure bet for triple digits in the future. Luke shows impressive feel of his low-mid 90’s FB, and I love how he uses it glove side with comeback life. The SL shape is definitely well advanced compared to most HS draft prospects, and I see it easily having mid 80’s velocity creeping into upper in the future. His CH has shown well in the past and is interesting for the future. If he can continue to have this quality of outings, I can see him being a late 2nd Rd arm in the 2023 draft.

Underclass Games

6-foot-1, 160-pound right-handed pitcher, lean, lanky frame, moves athletically on the mound, projectable, lots of room to fill out. Arm works short and quick with advanced arm speed, one of the quickest in Georgia’s Class of 2023, comes out of a high ¾ slot, gets downhill on the ball, repeats. Tall and fall delivery, utilizes his height weill in his delivery, works on-line, lands square, finishes crossing over. Fastball sat 81-84, touched 85, sinking action. Curveball, 64-67, swing and miss pitch, 11/5 shape, depth, late break, knew how to throw for a strike and bury one to get batters to chase. Changeup, 76, sink and fade.

6-foot, 145-pound right-handed pitcher, lean, athletic frame, has plenty of time to continue growing and filling out. Lulls the batter with a slow, controlled tall and fall delivery, long, slow draw on the back-side, accelerates with quick arm speed out front to a ¾ slot, finishes crossing over. Fastball sat 81-83, touched 84 with armside run. Curveball, 67, 11/5 shape, depth, got swing and misses with, worked to all areas of the zone. Good feel for fastball and curveball. Young prospect who has a good foundation for pitching, will be a high follow prospect.