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Adonis Medina, P
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The right tail outcome for Medina's profile is someone like Julio Teheran. Like Teheran, Medina is an athletic sinker/changeup righty, but he arguably has a better breaking ball than Teheran does. Before touching the vertical movement monolith and leaping into the new frontier of fastball understanding, I had boundless enthusiasm for Medina. But it eventually became clear his fastball just wasn't going to play like a mid-90s heater. The secondaries -- a sweeping breaking ball in the 77-82 mph range and that changeup -- and command projection are still strong, and they need to be for Medina to survive because his fastball has no margin for error in the zone. I have him projected with plus command because I'm betting on the athleticism, but I think it needs to be that good for Medina to be anything at all, in this case a fifth starter. (Alternate site, MLB)