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Poteet was a prospect several years ago, last on a list in 2017 (it was just 13 names long) as a potential backend starter. He had a two-tick velo bump during quarantine, and after sitting 89-93 and topping out at 95 in 2019 he's sitting 92-95 and touching 96 pretty consistently now. He had a ten-strikeout start in his first 2021 minor league outing then was immediately promoted to the big league team. It's surprising that Poteet had such a late bump in velocity. His era of UCLA pitcher had already adopted Driveline principals, and I would have guessed he was already maxed out. Of his three secondaries, Poteet most-often deploys his changeup, a heavy, sinking offering in the 85-88mph range. His slider has more linear, diagonal movement than two-planed sweeping shape, but it can still miss bats away from righty batters. His curveball has plus-plus spin rates but is easy to identify out of Poteet's hand since he has a sink/tail-oriented fastball. The limted utility of the breaking balls and the fastball being more a grounder-getter than a bat-misser holds Poteet in the low-variance backend starter bucket for me.