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With the 11th pick of the 2025 MLB
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draft, the Athletics select Jamie
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Arnold, a left-handed pitcher from
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Florida State. The Texas Rangers have
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All right. Well, for the Simol, he was
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not drafted out of high school, takes
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his talents to Tallahassee. And Lance,
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you mentioned it, a little bit of a
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funky arm angle. He turns out to be
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back-to-back Golden Spikes finalist.
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Yeah, it's a very weird arm angle. I'd
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say this is the weirdest angles in the
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draft. the Azer drafting an angles guy.
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He has one of the lowest release heights
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will have when he reaches the majors in
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all of baseball. He releases almost a
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foot lower than the average left-handed
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pitcher. It's a really nasty approach of
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the fast ball. The reason that that
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release height is so low and the
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velocity, you mix that together. You see
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the vertical approach angle there. If
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you get around -4°, you start to get
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into really flat territory. Jimmy does
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that really well with two fast balls,
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his forcing fast ball primarily and also
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a sinker. But the key thing here is a
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nasty sweeper. This thing is sick. It's
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got 4 in of lift and a bunch of glove
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side movement at above 84 miles per
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hour. The odd thing I will say, he
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throws it a lot to off-hand hitters. So,
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as a lefty, he's throwing it a bunch to
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righties. I wonder whether a variety of
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other organizations, including the
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Athletics here, might look at that and
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go, "Okay, we like that pitch, but let's
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incorporate something a little shorter
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to complement the sweeper." And then all
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of a sudden, you're looking at a four
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pitch guy. He was my number two arm in
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this draft. I think the Athletics maybe
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are a little surprised he got here, but
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they have to be absolutely thrilled with
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We are watching some absolute perfect
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picks fall to their perfect spots.
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Really, this continues to be the theme
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here. You take a look as they light it
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up with his name. This is so exciting,
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Greg. Another big arm.
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Yeah, and listen, Nick Curts was quick
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to the big leagues. I know this is a
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pitcher, but he could be quick to the
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big leagues. Jamie Arnold to me, Tony,
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he's he's ready to rock. This guy's This
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Yeah, I mean, he's ready now, especially
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because the deception is going to be
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right out of the shoot. Something
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difficult to deal with. Um, you know,
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something these organizations need to
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realize is how much work these area
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scouts and other people put into just
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knowing who these guys are and when they
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ask me about players or other coaches, I
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think we go off of what's the feeling
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like when you have to prepare for this
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pitcher or this guy's in the batters
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box. When we had to prepare for him and
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we watch video, it was an O. We're not
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Oh no. Oh. Oh no. In four letters. And I
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I think that's that's an easy way to
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argue that the A's got a steel here.
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Yeah, I I I agree with that. I think the
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one thing that people don't realize with
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him, I think he's going to get a lot
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better than what he is right now. I
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think there's still development. I think
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there's 10 to 15 pounds of strength. I
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think there's some play on his vertical
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velocity. His change up for me was elite
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last year. He didn't throw it for
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strikes. I think he will with time. I
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mean, if you look at the collection of
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talent that the A's have put together,
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this fits right in their timeline of the
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core group of position players are
