power arm with strikeout upside, but the freshman roller coaster is real
In the 2026 season, Virginia Tech freshman right-hander Ethan Grim flashed real rotation upside: he opened his year with a 5.0-plus inning start vs. Tennessee, earned a solid Cape Cod League run with 7 strikeouts in 6.1 innings, and carried a fastball/slider profile that scouts liked enough to rank him among the nation’s top prep arms before college. The hook here is the ceiling—he can miss bats and handle meaningful innings—but the risk is command inconsistency and some rough blow-up outings, so he fits best for a team willing to develop a high-upside pitcher, not just plug-and-play him.
