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David Levine -> RE: Twins 2024 Season and Game Day Thread (7/15/2024 4:46:33 PM)
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Round 2, CB Round B, Pick No. 69: Dasan Hill, LHP, Grapevine (TX)
FanGraphs Scouting Report (#24 ranked prospect)
Hill is maybe the most projectable player in the entire draft class regardless of position or demographic, at 6-foot-5, 175 pounds. He was peaking in the 88-90 mph range last summer but held 92-97 for five or six innings at a time this spring, and he still has a ton of room for strength and more velocity. His feel for location is also uncommonly good for a pitcher his size and age, and it applies to Hill’s fastball and breaking balls. He can locate his breaking ball for strikes and chase; both versions are average to a tick above. An upper-70s changeup is his fourth pitch right now but it might be his best at maturity. He has precocious feel for creating action and for location. Hill is among the best high school pitching prospects in the draft, with impact, mid-rotation ceiling.
MLB Pipeline Scouting Report (#52 ranked prospect)
After parking around 89-90 mph and topping out at 93 with his fastball last summer, Hill has grown 3 inches, added 15 pounds and started dealing in the low 90s while reaching 96. His best pitch is a high-spin slider in the low 80s that he backfoots well against right-handers. He also has a solid upper-70s curveball with more depth and a low-80s changeup with sink and similar promise. Hill not only possesses four viable offerings but he also has the ability to throw them all for strikes. He still has room to add plenty of muscle to his lanky frame, so his repertoire could continue to get stronger. The biggest knock on him is a lack of history with quality stuff, though his upside at least as a No. 3 starter is hard to deny.
Keith Law (#40 ranked prospect)
Hill is a 6-5, projectable lefty who shows average velocity now but should easily get to the mid-90s in time, with feel to spin two different breaking balls, excellent tumble to his changeup, and a delivery he should repeat enough for strikes. He can cut himself off and come across his body too much, which he shouldn’t need to do since his slider looks like it’ll be plus and that alone will make him tough on left-handed batters. This is the classic high school projection archetype — good frame, solid offspeed pitches for his age, a delivery that mostly works, needing strength and the added velocity that comes with it. He’s committed to Dallas Baptist but should be one of the first high school lefties off the board.
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