Troubled with which Rangers top 10 prospect I should coordinate on tonight, I did like someone, and just put Caden Scarborough on my left monitor and David Davalillo on my right monitor. It was quite the sight to see, because both proved exactly why they are both so highly regarded in the Rangers Farm system.
Caden Scarborough was on the hill for Hickory versus the Charleston Riverdogs, who came from a recent piece where he has been to place not uncertain terms, completely dominant. It was a bit of a turbulent start of the year for Scarborough, because after June he had an ERA of 4.23 and had not yet had an outing where he threw past the 4th inning. However, that was hardly worrying, because you could certainly see the flashes of the ++ properties that the Rangers Scarborough had signed for an over-slot $ 515,000 after the drafting of him in the 6th round of the design of 2023. Scarborough was a pitcher who loved his career under the Radar, but but the movable framework, but were able to do the High Projecting Passing-up. From his Dallas Baptist deployment.
Scarborough struggled with command during his 2024 debut season, while he brought a running speed of 17% in his 10.1 innings; A season shortened by a tense LAT problem. However, when he came in 2025, it was clear that Scarborough was for an outbreak year. He added 30 pounds to his 6-foot-5 frame, and it came to his at an increased speed fastball. He sat down around 89-91 to now now 92-95 counts at 97, and there is even more speed to be obtained while he continues to fill in his frame. Scarborough’s Fastball shines because of his elite extension, as well as the Carry and Run that he can generate from his low release height. He has one sweeper That can sometimes be inconsistent in shape, but it has improved enormously compared to this one season. It rates as an above -average pitch with potential to be ++ and he can find it very well. His third throw is one split That this year he has been admitted as a pitch for left -wing that he needs if he wants to stay as a starter. The splitter has a bit of an inconsistent shape to expect, but there are times when you can really see the depth he can reach. At the moment the lake is a soft contact field versus haunting Whiffs, but because of the arm speed that Scarborough can generate, it is potential and I am enthusiastic about looking at it.
Tonight was about as dominant if you could introduce yourself for Scarborough. He started the game with 4 straight strikeouts and had 5 strikeouts after 3 innings. He had the Riverdogs -stroke people out of balance all night when he collected 4 strikeouts and swung 3 strikeouts to end the night with a line of 5 innings, zero hits, zero runs, 1 walk and 7 strikeouts while lowering his season era to 2.88. Since June 29, Scarborough has thrown 34 1/3 innings for a melody of a 0.79 ERA together with 6 walks up to 39 strikeouts. After he had not had any outing until June, where he threw more than 4 innings, Scarborough has since gone at least 5 innings in 4 of his 6 starts (excluding the 1 inning after ASB appear). His command has also improved enormously, because it currently has a 31.7% K% and a BB% of 6.5%. It is not difficult to see why Caden Scarborough is highly regarded in the Rangers farm, and it would not surprise me to see him as a Consensus Top 100 -forecast that will start next season.
The Venezuelan right-handed person went to David Davalillo and took the ball for Frisco in his 8th performance for the club since his promotion of High-a Hub City. He signed some background information about Davalillo, from Venezuela, at the New York Mets in 2021 for $ 30,000. That deal became invalid 2 months later and the Rangers signed Davalillo for $ 10,000 in June 2022. He spent 2 years playing in Rookie Ball, apart from one start at Low-A Oost at the end of the 2023 season. Davalillo really burst on stage in 2024 when he placed a 1.88 ERA in 110.1 innings in the east and high-a Hickory, threw 113 and only ran 32. He wore that momentum in the 2025 season, and through 89.2 innings on High-a Hub City and AA Frisco, Davalillo has spent 101 and runs 23 to a 1.91 ERA, 2.80 FOM, 2.80 Next Pross, 2.80 for the following of. A 0.86 whip. He holds opponents for a stunning stroke average of .170, together with a 30.7% K% and a BB% of 7.1%.
Davalillo currently has a six -pitch mix. Prior to his promotion to Frisco, he throws a fastball, zinc shed, curveball, slider and splitter. However, because he arrived in Frisco, he also introduced a cutter in his repertoire, who during his first start has a number of promising early results for an amount of a touch of 50%. He throws both fastballs in the low to the mid -90s, and they will hit 96. His sweeping machine lives in the low 80s, and his curveball is in the middle to high 70’s range. The splitter floats in the mid-80s and his new cutter is quite consistent in the reach of 89-91. The opinions of his best pitch can vary between who you ask, but most agree that it is the splitter. Last year he generated a touch of 58%at that pitch alone, and after viewing it it is easy to see why. He do Have a somewhat inconsistent shape, because it can sometimes break the glove side, but it locates it very well and can throw it a little more than 1,000 rpms (which is one of the causes for the rare break of the glove side). Disgusting, some can call it.
If I can speak briefly, David Davalillo is an animal on the hill (in the best possible way). I don’t think it is physically possible to phase him. In his previous start in the 3rd inning, Davalillo started the inning by allowing what I personally felt like a 5-strike walk, followed by an error in the right field to put runners on the 2nd and 3rd base with zero outs in the inning. Davalillo then left the side and came out of the inning unscathed; Judicially screaming when he left the hill and kept the zero on the scoreboard. So tonight versus the Midland Rockhounds was nothing new for Davalillo, because this time in the 4th inning he allowed a first-pitch single to the left field, and then a double left field line to place runners on 2nd and 3rd with zero outs. Davalillo then received a sharp ground ball to the 2nd base that the runner froze for 1 by 1. Now with the infield in it, Davalillo got a first-pitch ground ball to the 1st base that then threw the runner at home to keep the zero. 2 throws later, Davalillo was able to step out of the inning on a fly to the right field, to get out of the inning without having a run scored.
In the night Davalillo ended with 1 strikeout, which is not very impressive on paper. However, if you take into account that he threw 7 innings (a career high), only allowed 3 hits, did not walk any batter and threw only 76 throws, it is an incredibly efficient and grim outing. Davalillo placed a strike% of 67.1% and reduced his Frisco era to an absolutely disgusting 1.63, along with a whip of 0.91 and an opp. AVG. from .170. Everything about David Davalillo is an anomaly. His engineers are so whippy that it should not be possible to repeat his delivery as he, he should not be able to recommend as well as he, and he should not be able to throw strikes with all 6 of his fields. Yet he does this in every game he plays. He has an incredibly cerebral sense of sequencing and tunnelen of his fields; So much so that I would say that he is by far the best on the farm when it comes to that feeling to pitch. You see many pitchers in the small competitions. Make sure you look at the start of David Davalillo next week if you want to see a real ‘pitcher’, as well as the next man in the Rangers Farm system together with Jose Corniell who will make a real push for Big League -innings next year.
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