The Mariners are in settlement with first-round choose Jurrangelo Cijntje on a deal, pending a bodily, experiences Daniel Kramer of MLB.com. In keeping with Kramer, the Mississippi State product will obtain the total $4.8809MM slot worth of the fifteenth choose. Seattle additionally reportedly agreed to an overslot deal with second-rounder Ryan Sloan final night time.
Maybe probably the most fascinating participant on this 12 months’s draft, Cijntje is a change pitcher. A local of the Netherlands and one-time Little League World Collection participant with Curacao, Cijntje is a pure lefty however throws a lot more durable from the best aspect. Scouting experiences credit score him with a plus slider and mid-upper 90s velocity as a righty. Cijntje sits within the low-90s with a sweepy slider as a lefty, limiting his work there to particular matchups. He didn’t pitch left-handed towards each lefty hitter and labored nearly solely from the best aspect late in his draft season.
After posting an 8.10 ERA over 14 appearances as a freshman, Cijntje broke via with a superb exhibiting as a draft-eligible sophomore. He turned in a 3.67 earned run common via 90 2/3 innings. He fanned practically 30% of batters confronted with a stable 7.9% stroll fee — an enormous step ahead after he’d walked greater than 14% of opponents throughout his first school season.
Cijntje mentioned on the draft that he hopes to proceed growing from each side. Kramer writes that the Mariners intend to present him that chance. There’s a very good probability Cijntje surpasses former MLB reliever Pat Venditte as probably the most profitable switch-pitcher in reminiscence. Keith Regulation of the Athletic wrote earlier than the draft that the 21-year-old had the upside of a #2 starter. FanGraphs wrote that Cijntje seems like a back-end starter as a righty along with his matchup work from the left aspect.
Regulation slotted Cijntje because the #15 prospect within the class, precisely matching his draft slot. Baseball America slotted him twenty fourth, whereas FanGraphs put him thirty fourth. The Mariners have had loads of success with the faculty pitching demographic lately, snagging George Kirby, Logan Gilbert, Bryan Woo and Bryce Miller from these ranks. Cijntje was the third pitcher off the board this season.
