- Full name Brandon James Neely
- Born 07/08/2003 in Jacksonville, FL
- Profile Ht.: 6'3" / Wt.: 200 / Bats: R / Throws: R
- School Spruce Creek
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School: Florida Committed: Never Drafted
Age At Draft: 21.0
Neely attended the same Spruce Creek High School in Port Orange, Fla., that 2020 first rounder Zac Veen attended, and while he was a top-200 talent in the 2021 class a year later he made it to campus at Florida. Neely posted a 3.68 ERA as a high-usage reliever for the Gators in his first two seasons and was named a stopper of the year finalist after pushing his strikeout rate from 25.3% to 30.1% and moving to the closer role in 2023. A 6-foot-3, 210-pound righthander, Neely has a deep pitch mix for a college reliever. He mostly works off a 92-94 mph fastball that touches 97, but will also mix in a low-80s slider, an upper-80s cutter, a mid-80s changeup and a slower, mid-70s curveball. While his breaking balls are high-spin offerings, Neely’s fastball has been his best swing-and-miss pitch as its usage might suggest. He throws from a lower release height and gets tons of arm-side running life on the heater.
