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Froilan Ealand
Starting Pitcher | Retired or Inactive Players
Pitching Ealand likes to get hitters looking down and away, then ties them up by coming inside with hard stuff, getting a lot of groundball outs. His fastball gets into the high 80s, but it's the sink that makes the pitch effective. The Retired or Inactive Players hope he can work on his control a little bit. Every once and a while one slips away from him and either ends up at the backstop or in the right field bleachers. His stuff becomes less sharp as he gets into the late innings. He attacks lefties and righties with similar success.
Defense & Hitting His windup, though, makes him an easy target to run on. Ealand is agile on the mound, though he makes needless errors when his concentration wanders. Ealand is a surpisingly good hitting pitcher. And I'm not sure you can say this about a pitcher, but Ealand has some pop in his swing. Interesting sidenote, The Retired or Inactive Players have been known to use Ealand as a pinch-runner on occasion.
2025 Outlook AA isn't the right place for Ealand. Expect the Retired or Inactive Players to send him down for some minor retooling. I just don't know if The Retired or Inactive Players are ever going to get what they expect out of him.
-- Emu Nyman, AA/AAA Scout
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