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Justin Dunn
Born: 09/22/1995 (Age: 23) |
| Bats: Right |
Throws: Right |
| Height: 6' 2" |
Weight: 185 |
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| High leg kick that rotates around to a medium stride towards home plate. Generates power with hip turn & rotation around the pivot foot. Clean whippy arm action from a 3-quarters delivery. |
| Kevin Carter |
| 05/07/2019 |
| Arkansas Travelers (AA, Angels) |
| 5/2/2019 |
| 60 |
| 2020 |
| No |
| Fastball |
55 |
90-92 |
94 |
90-92/T94 with plus arm-side action, especially on the left side of the plate. Fringy command of the pitch. |
| Changeup |
60 |
85 |
86 |
Flashed plus with quality arm speed, tumble, and swing and miss fade. Command was inconsistent and Dunn left it up over the plate multiple times, but mistakes weren't punished because of pitch quality. |
| Slider |
55 |
83 |
84 |
Consistently above average with sharp late slurvy break. Broke it off the plate at will and put it on the back foot to lefties. |
| Curveball |
55 |
79 |
79 |
Flashed above average with above average 11-5 break, depth, and spin. Threw quite a few and was obviously focused on development, but had trouble keeping pitch down in pitcher's counts. Maintains break in zone and can throw for strikes early in counts. |
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Dunn is a bit shorter and much stockier than his listed height and weight (6'2", 185 pounds), with a strong lower half and broad shoulders. He is a plus athlete with quick twitchy movements and plus body control. He throws 4 potentially above average or better offerings that should carry him to regular position at the back of an MLB rotation.
Dunn has advanced pitchability with the ability to use any of his offerings in any count. Dunn's changeup and slider can look similar out of the hand at similar speeds, only for the ball to break in the opposite direction the hitter expected.
Dunn doesn't project for much command improvement due to an athletic and rotational delivery, but improved consistency of the curveball and changeup could push him up into a middle of the rotation spot. Dunn is close to MLB ready as-is and it shouldn't be long before he's ready to take a back of the rotation spot.
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