01/13/2017 - Baseball Factory All-America Pre-Season Rookie Tournament Thomas continues to progress and showed well at the Pre-Season Rookie Tournament. On the mound, this RHP pounds the zone and challenges hitters to swing the bat. He works tall and gets strong glove-side lead, driving downhill toward the plate. FB has slight tail as he works it in and out. He keeps it down in the zone, resulting in GB outs - 76-78 mph. Breaking ball shows 10/4 shape with sweeping action. Changeup has some sink as he throws it with FB arm speed. At 1B, he hustles around the GB into a square fielding position. As a hitter, this righty has rhythm to load and takes a hack at pitches he likes. He squares the ball up and drives it back up the middle of the field. Joshua will toe the rubber and compete in this only his freshman year.