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Tournaments  | Story  | 7/4/2021

17u Elite Scout Notes: Day 4

Perfect Game Staff      Brian Sakowski      Colton Olinger     
Photo: Nolan Schubart (Perfect Game)
17u Elite Scout Notes: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3




At this time of the summer, it’s always fun to find the projection arms who don’t have heavy velocity right now, but who are easy to project that velocity on moving forward. Maxx Yehl (2022, Portville, N.Y.) is one of those to my eyes, and he was absolutely dominant for Artillery in their playoff win on Saturday morning, striking out 12 while allowing just 1 run over 6 frames. Yehl has the size for that projection at 6-foot-6, 207 pounds, and there’s a lot of intriguing components working in his favor along with that size. He’s very crossfire and releases from a very extended high three-quarter slot, creating both plane and angle to the plate and making the fastball very tough to square up. He worked up to 90 mph in this one and settled in below that in roughly the 85-89 mph range. He’s got excellent feel to spin the ball, another trait that makes projection easier, showing both a slider and a curveball in this one. The slider is firm, already reaching the low-80’s with sharp tilt and good tunnel, and he mimics the slider release well on the curveball, a slower big-bending 1/7 job that he can land for strikes. Yehl already presents a very uncomfortable at-bat and has the makings of monster stuff long term. He’ll be followed with interest and is due a bump in the rankings.
 
The rest of the Artillery team had a good game, getting consistent hitting up and down the board and pushing across 6 runs without the aid of a single extra base hit. Dylan Dreiling (2022, Hays, Kan.) hits atop the Artillery lineup and continues to just mash every time we see him. Dreiling has solid tools across the board but the strength of the profile is built on just how good his bat-to-ball skills are. His swing has above-average bat speed and plus lag to it, staying on plane for a long time and allowing him to maximize his margin for error when it comes to squaring the ball up, and he does so successfully with great frequency. There’s extra base power in there right now with the body projection for more, and this is the type of profile that ends up raking in college and getting paid in a big way following three years in school. Dreiling is committed to Tennessee, and we’ll see him a bunch more this summer and fall.


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