Chase Burns, Cin (A+), 4/4/25 Pro Debut (condensed)

We final­ly got to see the 2024 Draft’s sec­ond over­all pick make his full-sea­son debut Fri­day. West Michi­gan’s great angle and tal­ent­ed line­up was a bonus. I’ve nev­er seen Burns this straight on of an angle before. This could end up the best angle we get all year. I can see why the booth men­tioned a com­par­i­son to Dylan Cease. The fastball/breaking ball game does look sim­i­lar to the eye.

Burns tossed four score­less, strik­ing out six, and walk­ing one. Burns threw 67% of his 57 pitch­es for strikes while he exud­ed the abil­i­ty to cruise through a very good High A line­up. The fast­ball veloc­i­ty can get up there with the best of them, but the booth did­n’t clue us into any radar gun read­ings. Safe to say he was throw­ing hard, espe­cial­ly ear­ly.

I’ll be curi­ous to see how the attack adjusts as he moves up the lad­der. Burns fast­ball might raise ques­tion with some, as it isn’t a data dar­ling oth­er than velo, but this first out­ing, as green as it may be…these offer­ings, this attack and the exe­cu­tion look ready to play in the bigs. The nine mil­lion dol­lar man looks the part.

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