Tennessee Scout Blog: Week 1 Games

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MONDAY, MARCH 11TH

Matthew Shorey (Father Ryan, 2024) 
The Vanderbilt LHP signee came on late last spring and has been fun to watch his development. Tall, lean build at 6 foot, 160-pounds that has plenty of opportunity to add continued muscle to his frame as he matures and progresses in a weight training program. He attacked hitters all night and was consistently getting ahead into good pitcher counts. He gave up a few hits early with all of the damage against him coming in the first inning before settling down and not surrendering a hit the rest of his outing. He worked mostly in the 85-87 MPH  range with his fastball to both sides of the plate with good sinking run, while mixing in a curveball in the low 70’s to go along with a slider to lefties in the mid/upper 70’s that presented late sweeping action. Finished the game with 8Ks over the course of 5 innings to go with two walks. Opens up well with his hips and stays in line to home plate consistently with a little bit of crossfire over his front side. More velocity to come as he gets into a college strength program.