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Cade Cavalli, P
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Scouting report
A chiseled 6-foot-4, 225 pounds, Cavalli has a relatively short track record compared to other recently-drafted college pitchers because he was mostly a hitter as a freshman (he was coming off a back injury that kept him from pitching as a high school senior), missed time as a sophomore with a stress reaction in his arm, and had most of his junior season washed away by the pandemic. In his four 2020 starts, Cavalli was electric, routinely sitting in the mid-90s and touching above, locating a late-breaking, mid-80s slider, and even getting some chases on a hard, sinking changeup. He still spikes too many of those changeups. In his only appearance during 2021 spring training, Cavalli pitched one inning, facing the back half of the Mets’ lineup. He mixed his four-seamer (95-98) and changeup (88-90) for all but one pitch, a sharp, late-breaking 85 mph slider that missed low, but pulled a check swing out of the whiff-resistant Luis Guillorme. Cavalli hasn't pitched a whole lot, so the feel for locating and other minutiae could come later. He has a huge, Adonis-like frame and a huge arm, but he needs to prove he can stay healthy, and his arm action is kind of scary in that regard. (Fall Instructional League)