Pitch-by-Pitch: Scouting Wil Myers and Joe Kelly

MATCH-UP – Burlington Bees (Kansas City Royals) at Quad Cites River Bandits (St. Louis Cardinals)

KEY PROSPECTS WE’RE WATCHING – Joe Kelly (RHP, Cardinals) and Wil Myers (C, 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.

A bit of background first: Joe Kelly was a 2009 draft choice of the St. Louis Cardinals. I rated him as the No. 11 prospect in the Cardinals organization. Wil Myers I’ve done several reports on. One of my favorite prospects in the 2009 draft class, I rated him as the No. 1 prospect in the Kansas City Royals organization.

But let’s start with the Kelly scouting report before going into his head-to-head battles with Myers.

Kelly has a real live arm. The fastball sits in the low – mid 90′s with good life and tends to jump out of his hand. He was particularly strong in the first and second inning. However, his effectiveness waned as the game wore on. This is due in part to Kelly’s use as a reliever in college.

Kelly showed off an…