Spencer Arrighetti Stats & Scouting Report College Baseball, MLB Draft, Prospects

Publish date: 2024-05-18
BA Grade/Risk: 45/High

Track Record: Arrighetti spent three seasons at three different colleges. He started at Texas Christian in 2019, moved to Navarro (Texas) JC in 2020 and spent his junior season in 2021 as Louisiana-Lafayette's Friday night starter. The Astros drafted Arrighetti in the sixth round in 2021 and signed him for $147,800. Assigned to High-A Asheville out of spring training in 2022, Arrighetti made 22 appearances and struck out 124 batters in 85.2 innings but struggled with his command. He was promoted to Double-A Corpus Christi in late August and made six appearances.

Scouting Report: Arrighetti is a high-effort and athletic pitcher who moves rapidly on the mound. He gets downhill in his extreme drop-and-drive delivery at a frenetic pace. His operation features a late, deceptive hand break, a long arm action that gives way to whippy arm speed delivering the ball from a true three-quarters slot. Arrighetti's deception and ability to get downhill allow his four-pitch mix to play up. His arsenal is led by a mid-90s four-seam fastball that sits 93-94 mph and touches 96-97 with a flat vertical approach angle and hoppy shape. He pairs that primarily with a sweepy, low-to-mid-80s slider that is his best bat-missing pitch. He blends in a curveball in the high 70s as his third pitch. It shows two-plane break and more depth than his slider. Arrighetti throws a changeup to lefthanded batters that will flash good tumble and fade, but he struggles to command it consistently. His strike-throwing is below-average, but he showed improvements in that area throughout 2022.

The Future: Arrighetti has the deep arsenal of a starter, but his fringy command may push him to the bullpen, where his fastball/slider combination should play up.

Scouting Grades: Fastball: 55. Slider: 60. Curveball: 50. Changeup: 40. Control: 45

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