So far, Sean Newcomb has not met his high expectations for his first few years of college and professional football. The 31-year-old left-handed ranked 15th overall in 2014 by the Los Angeles Angels in 2014, with a record of 28-28, with a 4.50 ERA and a 4.38 FIP of over 454 1/3 professional major leagues. He is currently working to restore his career. Now, Newcomb has signed with the Boston Red Sox, his fifth organization is a minor league free agent, and Newcomb has put the team in spring training – the damage to multiple Red Sox hitters has played a role in his company – since he rode the mountain six times. The Massachusetts native's five starts and 1 relief look with a strikeout rate of 27.5% with 4.24 ERA, 2.61 FIP and 23 1/3 frames. His three decisions were losses.
His second major league season shows that the star is his future. As part of the Andrelton Simmons deal in November 2015, Newcomb continued to make 30 starts in 2018 and logged in to the 3.90 ERA in 164 innings. He made his debut on Fangraphs in June that year, and your writing really wrote that the tough Southpaw “quickly established himself as one of the best pitchers in the national league”. A month later, he encountered a strike during an accessible strike. Then things start to move in the wrong direction. Newcomb not only landed in the Brave Bullpen in 2019, but also met one in Triple-A. Since 2020-2024, he has only tossed 98 2/3 major league games, and has worked hard for three different teams. He was in that era of 6.66.
Back in March 2015, Newcomb ranked first. 2 is second only to Andrew Heaney on our list of Angels’ top prospects. What was Newcomb's Fangraphs scout report like at the time? Furthermore, what does he think about this over the years? To find out, I shared some of the content written by Kiley McDaniel, a potential client analyst at the time, and asked Newcomb to respond to it.
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“Newcomb was Hunter Dozier, the 2014 draft pick, and the club likes players more than the media consensus, partly because the team is not sure if they are the only team with him that high, so they keep quiet.”
“I think a big part of that was from the Northeast,” Newcomb replied. “It was even more overwhelming for me, but I did have the idea that I was going to be the first round. I talked to all 30 clubs. I actually thought I had a chance to go to Minnesota with the fifth pick.”
“Sources show that if Alex Jackson is not there, the Mariners could pick up Newcomb with the sixth pick.”
“The Mariners, then the Blue Jays, he has two draft picks [no. 9 and no. 11]and the Metropolitan [no. 10],” Newcomb recalls. “I don’t think I’m going to surpass the Mets. But something happened, like Kyle Schwarber is making more progress than expected [no. 4 to the Cubs]. I actually played Schwarber for two years in Cape, so I would be shocked if he wasn't a high option. I wasn't surprised that his career was great. ”
“The scout is easy to see on Newcomb's scout: he's huge, athletic, left-handed, has new arms (New England Do Athletic Kid).”
“It's always been an attraction,” Newcomb said. “In college, I only had as many as 90 innings. That was 72 innings the previous year. That was the majority of my pitching career.”
“With a 91-94 hit rate, hitting 97, it showed surprising pitch considering his background.”
“My 90s low to mid-90s,” Newcomb said. “Yes, I think my background is almost equal in terms of football and baseball. I also play the role and pitching. Pitching isn't always my focus, but I have a good idea, and that's what I end up doing. Once I go to college, I'm totally committed to that.”
“I talked to a lot of different schools,” Newcomb added. “I only have a few DI schools that are interested in me.
“Newcomb has good control, feel and repeatable delivery of the sequence, but he is still working on his strengths in pitch and staying stable and vulnerable with his stuff.”
“I always have a good fastball, good curveball,” Newcomb said. “I was able to cut the ball in college. In a professional ball, I absolutely had to polish something.”
“If he can make all the necessary adjustments and stay healthy, then the original element is here for the ace.”
“I’m still getting used to all of this,” Newcomb replied with a smile. “Ten years later. I mean, I definitely want to go out and see a good starter. I'm 31, still making adjustments, still adding the courts, still learning how to keep the batsmen in line. I look up to someone like Charlie Morton. He's a playboy. He's a playboy. [a left-handed Charlie Morton]. ”
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Previous “Old Scout Report Revisit” interviews can be conducted through these links: Cody Bellinger, Matthew Boyd, Dylan Scease, Matt Chapman, Erick Fedde, Kyle Freeland, Randal Grichuk, Ian Happ, Jeff Hoffman, Matthew Hoffman, Matthew Liberatore, Max Scherzer, Max Scherzer.
