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Eric Pardinho, P
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Scouting report
Famous at 15 thanks to his World Baseball Classic performance, Pardinho later signed with much fanfare, garnering the second largest bonus among his class' pitching peers, behind only Shohei Ohtani. At that time, he was more present stuff (he was into the mid-90s at the WBC, which is why he went viral) than physical projection, an atypical look for the J2 market. Based on this, Toronto pushed him to an affiliate quickly, and he pitched at Bluefield as a 17-year-old in 2018, his first pro summer. He dealt with injuries throughout 2019 and his stuff was very average, with the fastball resting in the 90-93 range. He had elbow soreness during the spring of that year, pitched in Extended for a while, got to Lansing late, made seven starts, then was shut down in mid-August. His elbow barked at him again last spring and he had Tommy John in mid-February of 2020. What made Pardinho appealing as an amateur -- his polish and potential to move quickly -- is now gone after the two years impacted by injury, and it's been a while since his stuff was exciting. What his body and stuff look like coming out of rehab could wildly alter his standing in the prospect landscape in either direction. (TJ rehab)