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Trevor McDonald, P
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Scouting report
McDonald was a pop-up prep arm from rural Mississippi, almost smack in the middle of the triangle created by the highways that connect Biloxi, Hattiesburg, and Mobile. Every team saw him up to 96 with a good, two-plane breaking ball but had very different projections on how the stuff and body would mature because his low, long arm action is pretty bizarre, and it's still scary enough for me that I'm leaving him in the 35+ tier even though his stuff looked better than that during 2020 instructs. Matt Sauer's delivery is a fair, recent mechanical comp. McDonald was working with four pitches during instructs: his tailing heater was up to 95, his changeup and slider were often in the 84-86 mph range, and his curveball had more depth and was in the low-80s. The arm angle is really tough on righties and McDonald will freeze them with breaking stuff that falls into the zone. It looks like a No. 4/5 starter's mix, just with a scary delivery from a scary prospect demographic. (Fall Instructional League)