Robert
Bird

5-foot-11, 180-pound, average athletic frame. The shoulders are rounded, back is wide, has room for future development. A left-handed pitcher, works from a slow repeatable delivery. The hands start low and work up with his controlled high leg raise, which has a little coil at the peak. The arm action is shorter, with crank like action to it, arm works out of a high ¾ slot. The stride length is long, gets squared up to plate on release, gets good extension on release. The fastball was clocked at 75 mph, has some sinking action to it to the arm side. The breaking ball is more of a slider/cutter, clocked at 63 mph and threw a changeup at 66-69 mph. Pounded the zone with strikes. Offensively, hits from the left side, the stance is wider than shoulder width, slightly open, hands are loose and relaxed, bat starts in a good flat position on the back shoulder. The weight is loaded up on the back side, steps slightly in with lead leg, bat path is flat through the zone, stays through the baseball well. The approach is more middle to pull, the tee exit velocity was clocked at 85 mph, barrel has life and whip out front. Defensively, at first gets off the base well, hands are soft, works from the ground up, needs to keep feet moving after he makes the throw. The arm was clocked at 70 mph across the diamond, showed good touch. Interesting arm off the mound, showed to have some deception.