Yohandri Contreras 5/12/26

Tuesday night Athletics Yohandri Contreras showed intriguing potential. 2024 IFA from VZ. Immensely strong 19-year-old RHP. Listed 6’4” 240 - 100% buying it. This kid is a physical specimen – looks like NFL linebacker on mound. Fastball worked 92-97 and flashed a 50 slider. “Just trying to get it over” look the delivery – relies on brute strength. Baseball explodes out of hand w/playing catch effort. Body control is fringey, might have been tiring in 3rd-4th - > see some posture issues w/ his torso tilting glove side, resulting in hooks/pulls. Slider shape was inconsistent but flashed average to maybe a tick above with sweeping 2p break. Seemed to be “guiding it” at times or it looked cutter-y. Believe I saw a change too, but shape was not good Would throw him into the bucket of interesting developmental arms on the AZ complex. Elite strength/physicality. Believe he has enough strike-throwing ability to profile in a pen, and suspect he could be mid to high 90s in short high-intent outings.