Justin Lamkin Stats & Scouting Report

Full name Justin Neil Lamkin
Born 06/01/2004 in Corpus Christi, TX
Profile Ht.: 6'4" / Wt.: 210 / Bats: R / Throws: L
School Texas A&M
Drafted in the CB-B round (71st overall) by the Kansas City Royals in 2025 (signed for $1,161,200).

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School: Texas A&M Drafted/Committed: Never Drafted
Age At Draft: 21.1

BA Grade: 45/High

Lamkin ranked as a top-300 prospect as a high schooler in 2022, but made it to campus at Texas A&M where he’s been a reliable workhorse for three seasons. His control improved each year and he turned in a career season in 2025 with a 3.42 ERA over 15 starts and 84.1 innings with a 28% strikeout rate and 5.4% walk rate. Listed at 6-foot-4, 210 pounds, Lamkin has a deliberate delivery with an extended stabbing action in the back of his arm stroke and a high three-quarters slot. He has impressive feel to land a three-pitch mix that is built primarily on his fastball/slider combination. Lamkin sits in the low 90s and will touch 95 with a fastball that has solid running and riding life. It’s not an overwhelming miss offering, but he landed it for strikes at a strong 69% clip this spring. Lamkin’s most reliable miss pitch is a low-80s slider with modest spin and a bit of gloveside cutting life. He relies on the fastball/slider combination almost exclusively against lefties, but will break out a low-80s changeup against righties that is a fine third pitch. Lamkin has the control to start but has just back-of-the-rotation upside until he can develop a true out pitch.

Scouting Grades: Fastball: 50 | Slider: 50 | Changeup: 45 | Control: 55.

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School: Texas A&M Drafted/Committed: Never Drafted
Age At Draft: 21.1

BA Grade: 45/High

Lamkin ranked as a top-300 prospect as a high schooler in 2022, but made it to campus at Texas A&M where he’s been a reliable workhorse for three seasons. His control improved each year and he turned in a career season in 2025 with a 3.42 ERA over 15 starts and 84.1 innings with a 28% strikeout rate and 5.4% walk rate. Listed at 6-foot-4, 210 pounds, Lamkin has a deliberate delivery with an extended stabbing action in the back of his arm stroke and a high three-quarters slot. He has impressive feel to land a three-pitch mix that is built primarily on his fastball/slider combination. Lamkin sits in the low 90s and will touch 95 with a fastball that has solid running and riding life. It’s not an overwhelming miss offering, but he landed it for strikes at a strong 69% clip this spring. Lamkin’s most reliable miss pitch is a low-80s slider with modest spin and a bit of gloveside cutting life. He relies on the fastball/slider combination almost exclusively against lefties, but will break out a low-80s changeup against righties that is a fine third pitch. Lamkin has the control to start but has just back-of-the-rotation upside until he can develop a true out pitch.

Scouting Grades: Fastball: 50 | Slider: 50 | Changeup: 45 | Control: 55.
School: Texas A&M Committed/Drafted: Never Drafted
Age At Draft: 21.1

BA Grade/Risk: 45/High

Lamkin was a key arm for Texas A&M in his freshman season in 2023 and was again heavily relied upon in 2024. Across 65.2 innings, Lamkin pitched his way to a 5.21 ERA with 88 strikeouts to 22 walks. He features a lively fastball up to 94 mph, but his bread-and-butter is his changeup-slider combination. The slider is his best offering and could be an above-average offering while the changeup was also a consistent bat-misser and looks like a solid-average secondary.

Scouting Grades Fastball: 50 | Slider: 55 | Changeup: 50 | Control: 55
School: Calallen HS, Corpus Christi, Texas Committed/Drafted: Texas A&M
Age At Draft: 18.1
The 6-foot-4, 215-pound Lamkin had a strong spring in 2022 and came just an error away from notching a seven-inning perfect game in March, where all of his outs came via strikeout. He faced 22 batters and punched out 21. The Texas A&M commit attacks from a lower, three-quarter slot, but hides the ball extremely well on the takeback, which adds sneak to his upper-80s fastball that will touch the low 90s. He possesses a mid-70s slurve with hard break away to lefthanded hitters and a down-action changeup he’ll keep righthanded hitters honest with. Lamkin is around the zone with all of his pitches. Expect his overall command to continue to develop as he fine tunes his game. With plenty of projection left, scouts agree his best days are ahead as some compared him to current Arkansas southpaw Hagen Smith.