{"id":3775,"date":"2011-05-03T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=3775"},"modified":"2011-05-03T04:29:36","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T09:29:36","slug":"why-scouts-aren%e2%80%99t-ranking-taylor-jungmann-in-the-top-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/3775","title":{"rendered":"Why Scouts Aren\u2019t Ranking Taylor Jungmann in the Top 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Taylor Jungmann is currently 10-0 with a 0.90 ERA and a 5.79 K:BB in nearly 90 innings.\u00a0 He features a fastball that sits in the low-90s that can reach above 95 mph when he needs\/wants it.\u00a0 His breaking ball is borderline-knockout currently, with a chance to pick up a little pace.\u00a0 It currently is thrown in the high-70s with excellent depth and break in two planes.\u00a0 His changeup grades as solid average to plus as well, although he doesn\u2019t use it as often.\u00a0 It is thrown in the 84-86 mph range with decent fade, though.\u00a0 Most importantly, Jungmann commands all three pitches very well to both sides of the plate and has an athletic 6-foot-6, 220-pound frame that obviously projects.<\/p>\n

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I saw him throw last April in Austin against A&M with The Towel and Eat-a.\u00a0 He worked in the low-90s that night and spotted everything well.\u00a0 He uses his frame well to get on top of pitches, but his fastball finishes less explosively than guys like Gerrit Cole and Dylan Bundy.\u00a0 Nevertheless, with his frame, arsenal, and results in the Big XII, why is Jungmann not a lock to land in the top 10 picks come June?<\/p>\n

Knocks on Jungmann include but are not limited to an across-the-body delivery, a lack of lower body involvement, and a head bobble in his finish.\u00a0 These criticisms are real and should be taken seriously, but my argument here is that none of these issues actually seem to impact the effort in his delivery.\u00a0 The bobble occurs after he releases, so logically has no impact on his pitches.\u00a0 He lands on line, so the across-the-body delivery probably is better described as just an illusion caused by where he starts on the rubber, which is on the extreme 3B side of the rubber.\u00a0 The lack of lower body involvement in his delivery is most worrisome to me, but only because it is probably robbing him of a couple of mph\u2019s.\u00a0 A quality organization might be able to coax those out of him before he debuts in the Majors.<\/p>\n

Basically, I view Jungmann as one of the top collegiate arms in a draft absolutely loaded with collegiate pitching depth.\u00a0 After Cole, Hultzen, and Gray, Jungmann would be the next collegiate arm I would take.\u00a0 A case can be made that Jed Bradley of Georgia Tech should go before Jungmann primarily due to handedness, but Jungmann has a far more developed third pitch and a better frame.\u00a0 At this point, I think a good case can be made for Jungmann to be selected before Gray, but it is too close to call at this point between those two fireballing righties.\u00a0 Regardless, Taylor Jungmann is comfortably inside my top-10 picks in this June\u2019s draft.<\/p>\n

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Taylor Jungmann is currently 10-0 with a 0.90 ERA and a 5.79 K:BB in nearly 90 innings.\u00a0 He features a fastball that sits in the low-90s that can reach above 95 mph when he needs\/wants it.\u00a0 His breaking ball is borderline-knockout currently, with a chance to pick up a little pace.\u00a0 It currently is thrown […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,15,1300,6,9,13,10,14],"tags":[2172,719,2193,629,2043,1957],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3775"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3780,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775\/revisions\/3780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}