Fall Tutorial League Notes: Royals, Giants, Padres

I simply completed an prolonged journey to look at instructs and the Arizona Fall League, and I’ve bought sufficient within the pocket book for just a few posts. We’ll begin with among the appears I bought at Royals, Giants, and Padres prospects on the backfields and, in just a few instances, throughout the AFL as nicely. Let’s hop to it.

Kansas Metropolis Royals

Angeibel Gomez, OF

We’ll begin with the man folks will ask about first. Gomez is a tapered 6-foot-2. Whereas he isn’t a freaky athlete within the Elly De La Cruz mildew, he’s limber and has a quick bat for a child his age. Going through among the greatest stuff of his life, his really feel for hitting stood out. Gomez is athletic within the field, and he was capable of struggle off above-average velo on the palms, flip round 97 above the belt, and flatten the bat and hit a line drive on a tough fastball up, all whereas holding his personal versus spin. He fouled off a pair robust sliders and took one simply beneath the zone. He wasn’t good — he expanded the zone just a few occasions and chased a curve within the filth — nevertheless it was a extremely spectacular displaying in context.

The place does this go from right here? To my eye, Gomez doesn’t appear to be an early-mature man, however he additionally isn’t somebody who screams “bodily projection” in the best way that, say, Sebastian Walcott did at his age. Gomez already has common measurable energy, and whereas there’s room for him to develop into extra, my projection leans nearer to “comfortably plus” than “80.”

Defensively, he’s enjoying nook outfield, and didn’t look particularly quick there or on the bases. Except he grows into extra pace (definitely potential at his age), he’s in all probability going to be a righty-hitting proper fielder, which places stress on the bat. Let’s not bury the lede: This can be a 17-year-old on our High 100, and it seems that he can actually hit. That mentioned, on the idea of this very brief look, Gomez appears extra like an excellent prospect than a generational one. Only one man’s guess; we’re in uncharted waters right here.

Justin Lamkin, LHP

I noticed Lamkin begin each throughout instructs and per week later within the AFL. As marketed, he’s a lefty with wonderful contact and really feel. He has a repeatable supply the place he’s balanced over the rubber, takes an extended stride, and finishes clear. It’s a bit misleading too, as his entrance leg appears to hold within the air for an additional beat, and hitters didn’t choose up his fastball all that nicely, despite the fact that it sits within the low 90s with out the type of motion that normally misses bats.

Lamkin’s secondaries are fairly good, each above common, and the slider performed like a plus pitch towards AFL hitters. He’s capable of execute each that and his fading change reliably, and aggressive lefties particularly struggled with the previous. Continued refinement there will probably be key, because the slider is extra tight than sharp, and when he leaves one up, it’s susceptible — Washington’s Jorgelys Mota annihilated one which didn’t fairly get to the again foot. Nonetheless, there’s lots to love right here, and in an period the place it’s robust to outlive as a starter with out a huge fastball or outlier secondaries, Lamkin’s pitchability provides him a shot to take action.

Hiro Wyatt, RHP

Wyatt adopted Lamkin, each on the backfields and within the AFL. He regarded extra bodily than after I’d seen him over the previous couple years, which is a pleasant improvement for a participant I known as “barely undersized” on this previous season’s Royals checklist. It seems that he’s experimenting with slowing down his already quiet supply. Once I talked about to a scout that this wasn’t what his supply regarded like final 12 months, he responded by saying, “It’s totally different than what I noticed final week.”

After lacking most of 2026 with a core damage, Wyatt’s stuff regarded regular. In the middle of two outings, he sat 93-95 with sink and missed just a few bats with a plus sweeping breaking ball. He’s additionally bought a tighter slider that he doesn’t use a lot, and a change that tends to flutter in harmlessly. Wyatt falls towards first base on the finish of his movement, and he tends to drag the ball with him and principally find to the glove facet. Accidents have restricted his alternatives to refine his really feel for the opposite half of the plate, stretch out, and discover a weapon for lefties. I’m additionally involved that his timeable cadence and sluggish stroke will give hitters a cushty look. Taken collectively, Wyatt is beginning to look extra like a reliever or once-through man than a standard starter.

Taylor Rabe, RHP

The third arm for KC was Rabe, a late first-rounder on this 12 months’s draft. One of many advantages of seeing a pitcher proper behind the plate is getting the hitter’s perspective. That is significantly true with somebody like Rabe, whose supply appears considerably extra funky behind the backstop than it does on video. His stride ahead has a bit hitch in it, and between that and a hidden arm stroke, it’s robust to select up the ball out of the hand.

Rabe is a downhill thrower. He sat 94-96, and his fastball form was far and wide. He has two low-spin breaking balls that flash above common and in addition a change, although he barely threw the latter. A pair balls slipped out of his hand and hit the backstop, however he in any other case was across the plate and didn’t get hit a lot. Rabe’s deception, variable fastball motion, and odd spin traits make for an uncommon profile. He’s athletic, projectable, and doesn’t have a whole lot of high-level baseball beneath his belt — he threw simply 92.1 innings at Ole Miss — all of which makes him an attractive and high-variance arm.

San Francisco Giants

Carson Bolemon, LHP

Bolemon regarded nice in his temporary outing, the place he principally pitched to the scouting report. At 6-foot-4 and each little bit of the 215 kilos he’s listed at, he’s a bodily lefty, significantly for his age. He has nice physique management and a unfastened, hidden arm stroke that helps his low-90s fastball play a bit forward of the quantity. His command is superior for a excessive schooler, and together with his supply and body, it might be plus at maturity. Each his low-80s curve and mid-80s change flashed plus, and he additionally labored in a mid-80s slider a couple of times (I went down the road for just a few at-bats and didn’t get a fantastic take a look at that final pitch). It’s the muse of a mid-rotation pitching prospect, significantly if the Giants can coax an additional tick or two out of him.

Henry Lalane, LHP

Lalane solely threw one inning, however he flashed three above-average or higher pitches. The fastball — 95-97, unremarkable traits — was the least fascinating pitch within the holster. His upper-80s change sinks and fades late, and it missed a pair bats, together with that of Angels’ third-rounder Gavin Grahovac. And whereas he doesn’t have a fantastic uncooked spin fee, Lalane’s mid-80s slider is sharp and in addition flashed. The one ding is that Lalane isn’t particularly unfastened. One scout who has seen him over a number of years remarked that he “appears stiffer” than he did again when he was within the FCL with the Yankees. Nonetheless, he throws strikes and might hit the field with all three pitches, which supplies him each an opportunity to start out and a whole lot of upside in reduction if he winds up within the bullpen.

Beau Bryans, LHP

Despite the fact that Bryans was a seventh-rounder this 12 months, I’m already penciling him in for the principle part of the following Giants checklist. He’s a low-slot lefty with a giant crossfire and, in my appears no less than, unusually good really feel for shifting the ball round for a participant his age and together with his supply. He sits 94-95 with a flat launch angle, and enhances it with a slider that’s clearly plus proper now, a sweeping, upper-80s bender with late depth. Throughout two fast outings, it missed a bunch of bats and lefties had no likelihood. Whereas he wasn’t wild in school, his stroll charges from college counsel a future in reduction. He may transfer in a short time in that function if he’s capable of hit the field like he did on the backfields.

Drake George, RHP

George was an unheralded Thirteenth-round select of Lewis-Clark State in 2024, and he regarded like a sleeper beginning prospect in 2025 earlier than he tore his UCL. He missed all the 2026 common season, and so this outing on the backfields was the primary I’d seen from him all 12 months. His velo was down a bit on this outing, extra 91-94 than the 93-96 he sat at in 2025, and it fell a bit over the course of his work. His breaking ball additionally regarded a bit slurvier than it did final summer time. Nonetheless, he threw loads of strikes and labored with all three of his choices (he additionally has a fading change). TJ returners deserve a whole lot of grace as they work their means again to full energy, so for now, the massive conclusion right here is that George is wholesome, and I’m trying ahead to seeing how he appears in longer stretches subsequent spring.

Alberto Laroche, RHP

Laroche is one other pitcher again on the bump after lacking the 2026 common season. He’s a unfastened righty with a straightforward supply. He got here out throwing 92-94 early in each appearances I noticed, and in every case, he warmed up and bumped a few 96’s later within the outing. He additionally labored with a median slider and alter. All advised, it was a return to kind for among the finest arms within the DSL again in 2025.

Alex Solis, RHP

Solis was San Francisco’s 14th-round choose this July. There’s an previous axiom about how the hitters will inform you how good a pitch is, and based mostly on how they reacted to Solis’ changeup, his could be a 70. It’s a low-80s cut up offered with good arm pace, and it had nearly each ACL Rockie means out in entrance en path to lacking half a dozen bats in a brief outing. The remainder of the package deal — truthful athleticism, common arm energy — was much less notable. At that time within the draft, although, groups are sometimes simply looking for guys with an outlier trait. Solis seems to have one.

San Diego Padres

Jhoan De La Cruz, SS

De La Cruz can actually choose it at brief. He was rangy in each instructions, with a fast launch and sufficient arm for the left facet. He nonetheless appears very small, although, and after a depressing 12 months on the plate within the ACL, he’ll have to repeat the extent.

Tyler Pitzer, RHP

Despite the fact that Pitzer had two extra years of school eligibility, he signed with San Diego as an undrafted free agent this summer time. It appears like a superb flier. Pitzer sits within the mid-90s with good perform of a excessive slot. His two-plane slider is sharp, higher 80s with good spin. He’s tough across the edges, as he has a deep stroke and a busy supply that’s difficult to line up, however the righty has traits to stick with.

Ty Brachbill, RHP

Brachbill, San Diego’s 14th-rounder this July, is a unique type of lotto ticket. Drafted out of a small Division I college, Brachbill can pitch. He messes with timing, throws strikes, and might add and subtract off of his slider. He was producing about 2800 rpm on his breaking ball, up just a few hundred rpm from when he was at school the spring. He doesn’t have a lot arm energy, and his low-90s fastball doesn’t have nice form, both. Nonetheless, the Padres may have one thing right here if a professional energy and conditioning program can assist him develop extra velocity.