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Article on an under rated Jays pitching prospect who we may see make his MLB debut this season.

Unique, eye-opening fastball lands Murray on radar of Jays pitching coach

While the 24-year-old eighth-round pick from the 2018 draft is an overlooked name at this point and isn’t yet on the 40-man roster, leaving him with a near-impossible battle to crack the team out of camp, Murray’s elite spin-rate fastball has led to the right-hander piling up strikeouts for nearly three years now.

After leading the organization in Ks in 2019 across three minor-league stops, Murray continued whiffing batters at the alternate site in Rochester last summer, this time with some added juice on his heater.

Using a four-seam fastball in the 88-91 mph range during his breakout ’19 campaign, Murray struck out 169 batters across 137.1 innings, an impressive 11.1 K/9.

With a unique high-spin offering that creates a rising effect and has confused hitters at every stop, the organization — and Murray himself — were clearly excited when that fastball started ticking up into the 91-93 mph range.

A 2,200-2,300 rpm four-seamer is about MLB average.

Murray’s?

It has been recorded on Rapsodo technology in the 2,800 rpm range, which puts him in line with the 2020 four-seam spin king, Trevor Bauer, who averaged 2,776 rpm on his way to a 1.73 ERA and the NL Cy Young Award.