MiLB Mock Draft: Pick 15 Los Angeles Dodgers

Ok Ill just copy and paste a scouting report i wrote on him. I had to cut some parts and delete some numerical notes from my laptop, but here is the jist of it.

“After seeing Ethan Martin throw multiple times in the last month, the opinion of the scouter is as follows:

Ethan Martin is a right-handed power pitcher who stands at about 6’2 and 200 lbs. He is a strong, muscular young man with a power pitchers body. While he is already muscular and well-built he projects to get a bit stronger in the next few years. Martin has a nice, clean delivery, and hides the ball fairly well for someone who was more of an offensive prospect prior to this year and his mechanics are cleaner than i expected.

On an off note. The kid looks EXACTLY like Eric Byrnes. Weird.

Martin throws what looks to be a 2-seam fastball that sits between 91and 94 mph. He touches up as high as 96, and has put away QUALITY hitters like Eric Hosner and Adrian Nietto on 96 MPH fastballs that dip and dive in and out of the strike zone. Ethan is clearly a bit raw, as his control is not always crisp from outing to outing, but still rates out as plus in terms of control. He throws a mid 80’s slider than can be describe as truly back-breaking. Both his fastball and slider project as potentially Plus-Plus pitches.

Martin throws an average changeup. After talking to his father, i have learned it is a split-fingered grip and that he treats his splitter as a change in the very low 80s with bottoming action. The pitch is inconsistent, but flashes (at times) plus potential. I would reccommend Martin ditching the split and movin towards a true change up, or simply adding it to his repetoire, as i dont expect his splitter will work in the future the way it does now. It is only low 80s because he slows the arm action down, similar to Palazzone’s changeup, and higher level hitters will pick this up. Still, the splitter has some use in the future in my mind at the moment.

I project Martin as a mid-to late first rounder at worst, but my personal opinion is Martin is the best prep pitcher in the nation, and i can see him possibly going as high as 6 to the Florida Marlins. Martin fits their M.O. as a non-Boras client and a top ceiling HS pitcher, though I think Eric Hosner will fall to 6 and the Marlins will not pass on him there, of which im certain.. With Melvilles struggle of command (13 BBs in 21 IP at the time of this writeup) i would recommend Martin ahead of Melville, Palazzone, and Cole.

Dollar Sign on the Muscle= $2.2 million “