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Scouting Video: Duane Underwood, RHP, Pope (GA) HS (2012 Draft)

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February 22, 2012

Duane Underwood is one of these guys with a blur for arm speed. If I’m on the pro side, this is just the kind of guy I want to get my hands on because he’s got arm strength. This is what you’re looking for — long, lean, wiry, physically projectable, got a chance to be durable, ball explodes out of hand. I kept watching this guy and thinking to myself, ”Edwin Jackson.”
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Notes from the 2011 Petco Park Game

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August 14, 2011

The way I figured it, I had three group 1 pitchers, nine group 2 pitchers and seven group 3 pitchers. Since I’m borrowing from the pro structure, I’ll say that your group 1 guys are expected to be major league front-end rotation starters, your group 2 guys should be middle rotation starters or potential closers, and your group 3 guys are fringy college guys, roster fillers, bullpen types, and eventually employable yet interchangeable arms.

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