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Tournaments  | Story  | 9/8/2020

Midwest Labor Day Scout Notes

Perfect Game Staff      Brian Sakowski      Cade Schares     
Photo: Vincent Trapani (Perfect Game)

In a playoff start for GRB on Sunday evening, Vincent Trapani (2021, Eau Claire, Wisc.) was excellent, in total control while his team built a big lead, allowing Trapani to pitch stress-free. The physical, durably-built righthander struck out 6 over 3 innings, allowing just a pair of hits and walking no one. He’s got some uniqueness to his delivery, really sinking into his back hip over the rubber and tilting his spine towards 2nd base, loading up his lower half before firing and driving downhill. The arm action has some checkpoints to it, getting offline through the back with a stabbed dice roll at the apex of the circle, but he was consistently on time in this outing over his front side, getting the arm slot vertical and giving him the ability to backspin the fastball. He worked up to 94 mph a couple times early on, settling into the 90-93 mph range, moving it around the zone effectively and showing the ability to command it to both sides of the plate. His curveball wasn’t at the level of the best we’d seen it but was still solid, mostly in the 40-45 range on the 20-80 scale in the upper-70’s on the gun, showing flashes of a legitimate hammer, and we’ve seen one from him in the past. It’s easy to project that as a bat-missing pitch. His changeup is a straighter pitch in terms of action but he sells it well, replicating his fastball arm speed and tunneling it well out of that high slot. An Arkansas commit, Trapani will be a solid draft follow in the upper Midwest next spring, and could potentially be in play in the top 5 rounds.

-Brian Sakowski


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