Ryan Gallagher ChC (A+) FQO 5/24/25 (Complete Outing — Condensed)

90 pitch­es, 63 strikes (70%)

The 2024 6th rounder has been over­whelm­ing Mid­west League hit­ters over his last three starts, strik­ing them out at a 45% clip over 18 IP, throw­ing strikes with all of his many weapons (67%), and keep­ing the walks around 9%. Gal­lagher’s thrown FQOs in two of his last three starts:

Gal­lagher’s mid 90’s fast­ball earns lots of whiff up in the zone vs these. There’s two or three break­ing balls, anoth­er fast­ball, and a split-change. Here’s a look at his lat­est out­ing. The South Bend broad­cast cuts away from catch­er signs and the broad­cast gun was out of whack, label­ing some high heat as low as 41, mak­ing pitch­ing label­ing tough here. But we can still get a good sense of Gal­lagher’s game here:

Gal­lagher got groov­ing in this one. Retir­ing 9 in a row and hav­ing mul­ti­ple stretch­es of doing noth­ing but throw­ing strikes. (End­ed the day throw­ing 12 of them in a row.) The fast­ball sets up a slew of sec­on­daries he can poten­tial­ly sequence in all sorts of ways. He kind of already does. He had these guys whooped. Despite it being Gal­lagher’s first pro sea­son, he is not with­out a nice track record of innings:

On a quest for real­ly good stuff, meet­ing good use of it, I can’t help but won­der if Gal­lagher is that. I want to sound the 0%er-is-a-Dude-alarm. Gal­lagher is the best 0% ros­ter SP spec out there, right? He could rise quick. I’m slot­ting him #1 on my Cubs list.

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