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Bosley-Smith

VA/DC Scout Blog

Bosley-Smith is 6-4 with wide hips and some strength on his frame, but still plenty of room to add to it and a lot of projection left. Throws from a low three-quarters arm slot with a short, loose, very quick arm. Some effort to his delivery, shoulders are closed, generates a strong hip drive and falls off a bit as he finishes. Fastball was 85-92 on the day with late run to it. In the first, he worked 89-92, in the third he was still 89-90, and in the fifth he had tailed off to 85-87 touching 88. Showed ability to command his fastball in the zone, attacking hitters inside, moving the ball just off the plate, definitely demonstrated fastball command, not just a strike thrower but a good-strike thrower. Slider was 72-77 with power sharp 10/4 break and good armspeed. Mostly was 77 early in the game, velocity tailed off as the game went on. Pitch was at its best when thrown down and away to righties, he tried to back door it to lefties a bunch of times and it got a bit loopy and hung up on those pitches, did not try to back foot his breaking ball to a lefty. Also did not show a change-up in warmups or the game. His command faded in the fifth inning as well as his pitch count got up and he issued both of his walks in that inning, he struck out 8 and allowed no hits, threw 86 pitches in the outing.