re: Jacob Mayers is Ricky Vaughn

Last night on the radio they said his release point is 7ft 4in. That's crazy. If he gets his command under control, he'll be fighting for a starting weekend spot next year.

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Last night on the radio they said his release point is 7ft 4in. That's crazy. If he gets his command under control, he'll be fighting for a starting weekend spot next year.

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He'll be drafted and go pro after this season, he has zero leverage coming back. And even with wild control he will have draft stock with his fastball and whiff rate he gets.

First time seeing him pitch last night. He has the body, the arm, etc I am no MLB scout but played a lot of baseball it definitely looks like his mechanics lead to him not showing consistency pitching in or around the zone. As I mentioned earlier that over the top delivery coming from a big guy can be very intimidating but I can see him getting better while at LSU but just his raw talent alone will get him drafted pretty high this draft. Hope he stays though.

He’s pitching at a 51% strike rate, even with a solid control (for him) outing last night. That is hard to insert into a meaningful situation.

I have heard this and watching last night you could see the inconsistency and last night was supposedly a good night. Can’t have walks against teams in the SEC and I did not see anything other than fastballs also. SEC will feast if the book on him is all fastball or him not throwing strikes.

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It’s more than just No hits.

He’s faced 27 Batters

11 Ks
8 BB
2 HBP

So that’s 21/27 Batters who didn’t even get the ball in play.

5 FO 1 GO

But I looked at his PBP

He’s thrown 130 pitches

13 Foul balls
5 FO
1 GO

so out of 130 pitches hitters only got a bat on 19.

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Again, against Purdue FW, Omaha, North Dakota St, Xavier and New Orleans.

I'm not saying Mayers would get crushed by SEC hitters, but inevitably guys will get hits on him in the SEC and the thing thats helped him out by far the most is nobody so far has gotten a hit on him in pretty limited outings. If they have, his ERA would probably be notably bad because he always has guys he leaves on when he pitches and like 3/5 times he's pitched its been 2 or 3 guys he leaves on. It's a very very dangerous game to be playing when you are facing teams who CAN hit that level of pitching some, even if its to the tune of a .200 clip, when you walk so many guys some of them wil inevitably come home if you give up even just a few hits.

Mayers had a 4.58 ERA last season but only gave up 39 hits in 70.2 IP ith a .165 BAA. I bet if you investigated into how a lot of those runs came across on him, it was his own doing with a walk or two in an inning and then just a single or something that drove guys in. He did notably give up 11 HRs which isnt nothing, and those hurt A LOT worse when there's 1-2-3 guys on base than 0-1 guy on base.