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Tommy Henry, P
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Henry's fastball velocity has now had a slow, steady climb from its 87-90 range in 2018, to the 89-92 range during most of his junior year, to anywhere from 90-94 at the 2020 alternate site. He was also pitching with a much shorter arm action at the alt site than he was in 2019. Accentuating components (he generates huge extension, which helps create flatter angle, and his fastball has backspin) already made Henry's seemingly pedestrian fastball viable, but the new arm action might bolster command and help him avoid the dips in velo he's sometimes dealt with in the past, when his delivery was uglier and more violent. Even though his arm action is much shorter, Henry's fastball command is still pretty spotty (which is fine -- it's a vertically-oriented heater) but his feel for locating all of his secondary pitches is much better. His breaking balls include a mid-80s slider and upper-70s curveball that have two distinct shapes. The curveball has more consistent impact depth and sweep than his slider, but he used the slider most often at the alt site. Henry's changeup is command dependent, and while it's not always located competitively it's almost never in the fat part of the zone. Even some of the cambios he mis-releases have accidental cut/slide and can generate awkward swings. I'm a little less scared of injury now that Henry's arm action has been cleaned up, and his stuff suggests he's a lower-variance No. 4/5 starter. (Alternate site, Fall Instructional League)