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White's stuff has really improved since the Dodgers drafted him with the 65th overall pick last year, and he theoretically might be a top-five overall selection if teams redrafted this month, ESPN's Keith Law reports.
Part of the reason the Dodgers selected White was that they projected velocity gains (he was in the low-90s in college), and that has indeed come to fruition, as his fastball was sitting in the 95-97 mph range in a minor league game Monday. He also gets excellent life on the fastball, and if he can hold that velocity while logging a starter's workload (he threw just two innings in this game), it could be at least a 70-grade offering. Additionally, he features a plus 88-90 mph slider and a solid curveball. White has the size (6-foot-4, 225 pounds) to handle a heavy workload, but he has Tommy John surgery on his resume, so we likely won't see him going over 150 innings in a season until 2018 or 2019. This is a player who could move fairly quickly, and should be moved way up on prospect rankings due to the increase in velocity.
