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Keith Law, ESPN Senior Writer 7y

Scouting the AFL: Yankees prospects Kaprielian, Torres looking good

After writing about Tim Tebow earlier this week, now we move on to players who can actually play baseball. More scouting notes from the Arizona Fall League:

• New York Yankees right-hander James Kaprielian, their 2015 first-round pick out of UCLA, was outstanding in his AFL debut Wednesday night, his first outing since he went down in April with an undisclosed arm injury. He threw 94-97 mph with a hard cutter-like slider that was 85-89 early but slipped a little in his third inning, and he showed a plus straight changeup with great arm speed at 82-87. There's some effort there in the delivery, but as long as he's throwing this well with this kind of command, I wouldn't change a thing. A healthy Kaprelian would be a potential No. 2 starter, maybe better.

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