From Fangraphs....
Cleveland has so many interesting athletes/bodies in the AZL that, even after prioritizing looks at them throughout extended spring training, I’m still running into new guys. RHP Carlos Vargas was last night’s star. This is a 6-foot-3, 180-pound righty who sat 93-96 all night, flashed a plus power slider in the mid-80s, and even got a swing and miss with a weird-looking power changeup. There’s much to be desired from a poise/mound-presence standpoint here, but that’s okay for now considering the kid is 18. Both of Vargas’s outings in the AZL have been abbreviated, so take the velocity with a grain of salt until we see what it looks like over five or more innings, every fifth day, for a whole summer. But also note that this stuff looks an awful lot like that of many of the high school arms who went in round one of the draft earlier this month and that scouts have told me they’ve seen Vargas throw harder this spring than he did yesterday. He has a deep, plunging arm action similar to Domingo German and Jonathan Loaisiga, who have each had injury issues. (I’ll get video up at some point today so you can see this guy.) From a stuff perspective, though, this is clearly a dude.
