Alabama Scout Blog: Week 5 Games
March 22, 2024
The Prep Baseball Alabama Scout Blog provides insider information and scouting notes from the Prep Baseball Scouting Staff during the season. This running blog will feature information on underclass prospects, unsigned seniors, draft prospects and anything else that is notable. We will provide a wide range of information, including player evaluations, velocities, pop times, home to first times and much more.
Continue to check back over the course of the week, as the Alabama Scouting Staff will add scouting reports each day.
Tuesday, March 19th
+ LHP Jackson Sanders (Valley, 2024) has been ranked inside the top-5 in the 2024 class in Alabama since the inception of the list, and has looked to have made a sizable jump since the last viewing. Listed at 6-foot-3, 190-pounds, the Auburn recruit is a strong prospect with good athleticism and is regarded as the top southpaw in Alabama. Getting the start in an area contest and in front of a few MLB scouts, the left-hander was dominant out of the gate and overpowered the opposing lineup with a heavy mixture of fastballs while mixing in a firm slider in some later counts on occasion. Working five innings, the senior operated 90-92 mph (2200-2350 rpm) and held it throughout his outing while touching 93 mph and a handful of times and 94 mph once in the earlier innings. Sanders' 3/4 arm slot helps generate some sink and arm-side run to the fastball with good command to the arm-side against right-hander hitters. His slider was used sparingly in the outing due to the ability to overpower with the heart, but it spun 79-82 mph (2500 rpm) with tight spin and hard lateral break to it, and was located in the zone and below it for swing-and-miss in two-strike counts. He possesses the ability to repeat his delivery well and has some slight cross-fire to it with a long and loose arm action. He knows how to pitch and did a good job of moving the fastball around the zone during the outing. He finished going 5 IP, H, 0 R, 2 BB, & 14 K on 80 pitches, 53 for strikes.