Chase Burns - Prospect Profile

Joel Reuter - Bleacher Report - July 7th: "With a fastball that bumps 102 mph, a wipeout slider, curveball and changeup, Burns went 10-1 with a 2.70 ERA, 0.92 WHIP and 191 strikeouts in 100 innings this spring."

Ayrton Ostly - USA Today - July 4th: "Burns pitched the fifth-most innings in the country (100) this season and posted a 2.70 ERA, 14th in the country. He relied heavily on his fastball and slider to rack up 191 strikeouts."

Baseball America - July 1st: "A 6-foot-3, 210-pound righthander, Burns has perhaps the best pure stuff in the class. He averaged nearly 98 mph with his fastball and has been up to 101. He attacks hitters with a high-effort, high-energy delivery that features plenty of recoil and moving parts."

MLB.com - July 1st: "Burns operates at 97-99 mph and reaches 102 with his heater, but it's fairly straight and batters get a good look at it coming out of his high arm slot, so it gets hit harder than it should at times. His tight slider is a true beast that sits in the upper 80s and has generated a 60 percent swing-and-miss rate during the last two seasons. He also owns a plus low-80s curveball."

Prospects Live - May 29th: "His slider is a 70 grade beast with shape manipulation in the 85-91 MPH range with diabolical bite and sweep, tunneling well off the heater. He's introduced a downer curveball in the low-80s more often this spring and he's tinkered with a low-90s change-up with some fade and sink, throwing it for strikes."

Keith Law - The Athletic - May 22nd: "The slider has a late, tight break in both planes, making it effective against hitters on both sides of the plate, while he gets big induced vertical break on the four-seamer, which is how he has success throwing those two pitches about 80 percent of the time. He can spin an above-average curveball for a different look and has a straight changeup with some modest tumble, clearly his worst pitch of the four."

Kiley McDaniel - ESPN - May 8th: "Burns is regularly up to 100 mph and has a 70-grade slider, helping him post absurd numbers for the Demon Deacons. I lean slightly to Smith over him as the top pitching prospect in this class and I think the industry slightly does as well, but it's a near coinflip."

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