Baseball Prospect Report

By The Baseball Beginnings Guy
November 5, 2009

The feeling here is that if Jack Armstrong was in the 2010 MLB draft, we’d be talking about him as a solid 1/1 candidate.

ESPN and MLB PR types would shoot me, but Armstrong is better than Strasburg, and it ain’t even close.  Armstrong hits 96 in this video (twice) with a power curveball, and a great body. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I read that line about not caring about if the guy looks good in blue jeans, too, assuming it was really spoken. But let’s get something clear. This guy is as close to big league ready as there is in the SEC right now. I’m not saying he won’t have some refinements to make, but I’m willing to bet he’s going to be making them in the big leagues. I saw Prior, too, and Armstrong’s arm action, slot, and extension are all achieved with less stress on his elbow. Freelance pitching coaches can pan me all they want, but if I was sitting in a front office, I’d be telling the owner that if he doesn’t sign this guy, he may as well go back to whatever business he came from.

I caught up with Armstrong for a Q&A this summer at Wareharm and it’ll be something we run in the future. I found him after running poles and working out in a high school gym at a high school field. It was July, it was slow, it was 4 p.m. I’ve seen enough players to know the difference between someone who is driven to put in the work and someone who uses his reputation to pack it in.

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