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Kevin Smith, IF
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Smith was acquired from the Mets in exchange for Miguel Castro and joins Zac Lowther as a soft-tossing swingman type of lefty with lots of tail on his fastball. Smith sat about 90 at the alternate site and tops out around 93. He had trouble working his sweeping slider to his glove side at both the Mets' and Orioles' alt sit locations and instead was limited to backdooring it to righties. When he can work it glove side, it has enough break and angle to be a finishing pitch, too. Fastballs like Smith's tend to pair nicely with a changeup but while Smith has fair feel for locating his cambio, it lacks any kind of impact movement. He needs a way to neutralize righties to profile in a middle-inning long man role. Plus slider command is the likeliest avenue. (Alternate site)