Pitch-by-Pitch: Scouting Royals Prospect Chris Dwyer

MATCH-UP – NW Arkansas Naturals (Kansas City Royals) at Corpus Christi Hooks (Houston Astros)

KEY PROSPECTS WE’RE WATCHING – Chris Dwyer (LHP, Royals)

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SCREENSHOT

A quick note on video structure…videos are edited to include only key and legitimate prospects. Time between pitches and between innings are edited out. Some commercials are left in out of respect for the companies that purchase ad buys.

I use time markers for when a particular hitter comes up to bat or a certain pitcher enters the game so you don’t have to shuffle through the video looking for key players. Games are edited so you can scout and evaluate a prospect in the most convenient and quickest way possible.

Chris Dwyer seemed to perplex Corpus Christi hitters. They couldn’t figure him out, couldn’t see the ball well out of his hand.

Dwyer had one of the best missed bat percentages of the pitchers I’ve tracked this year. The difference, however, was that Dwyer was able to do this in Double-A, while the other high markers were doing it in Single-A.

Dwyer’s fastball has a…