- Full name Alec M. Rash
- Born 03/20/1994 in Des Moines, IA
- Profile Ht.: 6'5" / Wt.: 185 / Bats: R / Throws: R
- School Missouri
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Drafted in the 23rd round (704th overall) by the Washington Nationals in 2015.
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Rash was a second-round pick out of high school but he's struggle to stay on the field at Missouri. There still have been times that Rash shows an explosive 90-96 mph fastball, but those times have been sandwiched around a wide-variety of maladies and times when his plus fastball has turned into an 85-88 mph below-average pitch. He's still extremely athletic, but he threw only 14 innings this season because of injuries and walked 10 in those few innings he threw.
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An Iowa native who moved to Alabama with his mother as a high school junior, Rash returned to Iowa for his senior season and is the state's best prospect since Jeremy Hellickson pitched at Des Moines' Hoover High in 2005. He'll go higher than Hellickson (fourth round) if a team believes it can sign him away from his commitment to Missouri and get him to control his electric stuff. Long and lean at 6-foot-5 and 195 pounds, Rash throws a 91-93 mph fastball that hits 95 and features heavy life, and he'll push his hard slider up to 83 mph. He is a quality athlete who also starred in football and basketball, but he is still learning to repeat his delivery. His arm is so fast that it gets ahead of the rest of his body, resulting in scattershot control. Scouts grade his present command as a 30 or 40 on the 20-80 scale, and his development will require patience. Rash's upside could drive him up to the second round, but his rawness and his signability mean he might fall significantly as well.
