Carlos Carrasco

Here's a spring training picture of Carlos Carrasco who put in time at Lakewood, Batavia, and now is playing for the GCL Phils (although he has yet to appear--perhaps throwing lots of side sessions to recapture his form). He has a beautiful motion; smooth, long-striding, seemingly effortless. His poor results this year were very surprising to me--I think he really struggled with location in the strikezone, and I've heard he lost some velocity with respect to last season. Still, at his age there's plenty of room for hope. I'd like to see him get a really dominating outing or two in for the GCL team before the end of the year.