Jacob Rudner goes around the country to empty his college baseball notebook after the first ... play ‘build-a-player’ by drafting the best tools possible from the 2025 prep class.

This probably is because pitchers do not affect the skew of the exit velocity distribution, just the mean and, to some extent, the standard deviation. Pitchers also affect exit velocity less than ...

The understanding of pitch quality, and how to improve it, has led to more strikeouts and perhaps more injuries as well.

Pitcher Eriq ... of 13 prospects in the Baseball America Prospect Handbook (which profiles 900 players) had a scouting grade of 80 on the 20-80 scale in at least one tool. Three are Dodgers.