Chase Burns or Hagen Smith? | 2024 MLB Draft Pitch Data Breakdown

Wake Forest's Chase Burns and Arkansas' Hagen Smith. Who will have the better MLB career? It's time to break down the pitch shape data of the top 2 pitchers in the 2024 MLB Draft and determine who the better pitcher is.

We'll walk through what they throw, what their pitch shapes tell us, play around with some MLB comps, and ask ourselves what a handful of MLB teams are asking at the top of the first round -- who is the better pitcher?

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0:00 Setting the Stage
0:19 Chase Burns Usage, Release Traits
1:02 Burns’ Electric Fastballl
3:09 How Elite is Burns Slider?
3:44 Burns’ Curveball, Changeup
4:50 What will an MLB org tweak?
5:19 Hagen Smith Usage, Release Traits
6:15 Smith’s Invisible Fastball
7:29 Is Smith’s Slider Good Enough?
8:27 Smith’s Changeup
9:05 How League Trends Could Affect Value
9:54 How Can Smith Get Better?
10:21 Who Goes First?