2018 Phillies Draft Preview: Shane McClanahan, LHP

Shane McClanahan is 6’2” 188 lbs LHP who is a redshirt Sophomore from University of South Florida. He continues this draft’s theme of exciting player with big, flapping red flags. The first of those red flags is hinted at in the first sentence “redshirt”. Shane missed his Freshman year with Tommy John Surgery. The good news with that is he shows no ill effects, as he can crank his fastball as high as 100 mph, which from the port side is pretty unfair for hitters. The second red flag gives me more pause, but more on that later.

So, I’ve already mentioned a Fastball that touches triple digits, but I’ll expand on that here, the pitch has good movement and he varies it throughout the game, often…