A great pitchers duel tonight. Read on for further details. Both starting pitchers were killer I’ll say that much
Eugene
Johnny Barbato RH– Hard to believe this kid was born in 1992. He has a great build already. The arm action was clean all through all the night.
Fastball- 90-92 peaked at 93: Dang this pitch looked good. He was basically throwing this pitch where he wanted all throughout the night. Great life to his fastball. Spotted it low and away very well
Curveball: 74-77: Always had good movement to this pitch but sometimes it was a true plus pitch and over times it showed hump out of his hand and became more loop. Out of 100 it was 60/40 plus life to looping hump.
Change 81-83: Based on past viewings I had marked this pitch down as nothing special but tonight it looked excellent. To righties he barely threw it and it had good deception but not a whole lot of motion to it. To lefties it was so much better as he could throw it to his arm side and allow the pitch to run a little bit.
Greg Gonzalez RH: Smallish frame and weird arm action but still very effective. Imagine an exaggerated Yovanni Gallardo type arm action and you have an idea.
Fastball: 88-90: Not a whole lot of movement to the pitch but because it jumped out of his hand and he got so downhill with it, hitters weren’t able to really square it up.
Curve:79-83: Basically a downer curveball. It didn’t have a whole lot of bite but he always spotted it down in the zone.
Change: 77-78 with one bugs bunny 70mph: Easily his best pitch. He keeps great arm action and really pronates on the pitch to get sick sink and arm side run. On the aformentioned 70mph he kept the same arm action and it almost looked like something out of a cartoon coming out of a quick release followed by a schools zones pace to the plate.
Simon Berroa RH: He throws like Alexi Ogando and ramps up his velocity as the inning goes on.
Fastball:90-94: Same as last night. Good velocity and decent life
Curve: 79-83 and one 74: The 79-83 looked good and sharp and the 74 mph was only to throw a hitter off balance who had fouled a bunch of 0-2 pitches off.
Change: 82-85: Not as filthy as last night but effective none the less
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Tri City
Christian Bergman RH: TIm Lincecum hair, thin frame, and an awkward delivery. He had good long arm action but a stiff lower half. He hid the ball well and kept the hitters off balance by mixing his pitches well.
Fastball: 89-91: Very consisntent with this pitch. Always from the same release and always around the plate. He had good sink to the pitch but it did flatten out when it was up in the zone. That very rarely happened so he was ok.
Curveball: 79-81: More an exaggerted slider than a curveball but it late motion combined with a sweeping and diving action as it reached the plate. Spotted this pitch well
Changeup: 81-82: Used this pitch very well. He threw it off of his fastball to get hitters out in front and used his fastball off of his changeup to jam hitters and result weak contact
Rafael Suarez RH: Solid pitchers build with a quick arm action. Attacked the zone well.
Fastball:87-90: Good 2 seam type action on this pitch. When he threw this pitch up to his arm side it had great life and was able to miss bats.
Curveball: 73: Just a big bending curveball that served more to keep hitters off balance than anything else
Changeup: 78-80: Some movement but his best trait was he released this pitch exactly as his fastball which led to almost every hitter getting out in front and beating this pitch into the ground.
Oregon Baseball Report 