Defreak!!!

[Chad Turner]

We hit the lottery with Kevin Defrank.  We had a deal in place for $560k, then he hits a growth spurt and adds velocity.  Now we got him throwing 100.4 mph at age 16 with a good slider and change.  If he would have signed 6 months later, he likely would have gotten $3MM+ like Salas did.  

Props to Baseball America for putting him in our top 5 prospects a month ago.  I also give FOF credit for putting him 14.  No other site has him in the top 22, until Fangraphs started him to 10 a week ago.  If he keeps dominating, I bet we see him in everyone's top 5 in the offseason.  This is what a future 60 grade prospect looks like.  

At 6'5 he's already drawing some Eury comps.  Plus with his big leg kick, he looks like Dontrelle Willis.  I'm literally more excited about him right now than anyone on our list.  That's not a slight to Thomas White, but he doesn't have that GAS and Defrank has shown better control so far, which is amazing for a 16 year old.  Jackpot!!!