Ryan Degges

School: Charlotte
Commit/Drafted: Never Drafted
Age at Draft: 21.9

Degges is a 6-foot-2, 185-pound righthander who was a two-way player with Columbia State (Tenn.) JC before becoming a pitcher-only in 2024 with Charlotte. A straight reliever, Degges had a decent season and posted a 5.53 ERA in 42.1 innings with a 26.3% strikeout rate, but analytically-inclined teams will be more interested in his pitch traits than performance. He primarily works off a fastball/slider combination and averaged 94 mph and touched 97 this spring. In addition to above-average velocity Degges gets above-average riding life on the pitch and has a slightly lower release point paired with a shallower approach angle. The slider is a low-80s sweeper with tons of horizontal movement that grades out well on Baseball America’s stuff+ metrics and also generated a whiff rate north of 50% this spring. Degges also has an upper-80s changeup but it’s the fastball and slider that will get him drafted. He needs to significantly improve his control—he walked 15.5% of batters in 2024—but his two-way background could leave teams optimistic about his future projection in that area.