Moore is a stud.

He sort of pumps his hand into his glove on fastballs and it didn’t look like he did on the breaking balls. The camera angles were tough to tell, but when he tips his glove in warm-ups to indicate breaking ball, I don’t think he did it for that.

Fastball, Slider, Changeup (Callis rated this above-average), Curve?

He’s used to much smaller parks and he still almost got it out on a line. Always gotta love the “that’s not fair” line after a Rays pitcher does something nasty.

in the BA midseason top 50. Now they now why. Teheran is really good, but Matt Moore is one of the most promising left handed prospects that’s come around in years.

I didn’t know he threw all that!

Moore’s breaking pitch is usually a nasty curveball, and when I asked him about his slider after the game, he looked a little sheepish. He threw three breaking balls but didn’t stay on top of them, so they turned into 86-87 mph sliders. It says something about his ability to generate arm speed and spin the ball that he could throw a plus slider by mistake.

and a good change up, maybe teach him a slider, although anyone who watched him pitch knows he has one, that was not a cutter. I would just have him work on his pick off move, have him come up as a lefty Shields with the pick off move.

Watching the video of Moore, two things really stood out to me and speak volumes of the Rays talent in and dedication towards developing pitchers the right way.

As you all know, we have heard to the two plus to plus-plus pitches. We have heard of the improved changeup. We have looked at the video game stats. Yet two things that have seemingly not been discussed as much were his mechanics and his command. Many of us have actually heard reports/rumors of his command, but as we all know, outdated reports are nearly worthless.

Even in such a small sample size, his command was pretty impressive to me. He put the ball in the right spots and kept it low. Funny how many said he was overly pumped up, yet his command remained very solid. Then comes his mechanics. Honestly, besides for a two year old report from projecptprospect.com, I have never read anything on his mechanics. I’m not going to break them down (because I am no scout, have little clue about mechanics, suck at baseball, and others have done it), but they are very effortless. In a way, I see a little bit of David Price in his mechanics, although not in the actual mechanics but in the effort.

Funny note: We all take notice of the “pumped” ESPN gun, yet I haven’t seen many (as in other team’s fans) subtract 2 mph off of their prospects velocity. Teheran and CMart aren’t so impressive anymore, right? (For the record, I do understand how small of a sample size this is.)