Anthony Frobose is a native of Yorktown Heights, a town in Westchester that boasts more congress members (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez), First Ladies (Rita Karen Olsen Beck, First Lady of Coasta Rica), professional wrestlers (Mandy Rose), and Russian spies (Robert Hanssen) than it does professional baseball players who made it to the major leagues; Yorktown Heights even boasts more Steve Cohens than it does ballplayers who made it to the MLB, though their Steve Cohen is known for being a magician with props and illusions rather than Great Neck’s Steve Cohen, who is known for being a magician with finances. The closest Yorktown Heights has to a native son making it to the MLB is Jonathan de Marte, the two-time Gatorade Player of the Year (New York) who pitched for the University of Richmond but was never drafted and spent the next year years playing in a handful of independent leagues as well as the Israeli National Team. With Anthony Frobose’s selection in the 2025 MLB Draft, Yorktown Heights has another chance for representation among baseball’s elite.
Anthony Frobose attended Lakeland High School, a school in Shrub Oak, an unincorporated hamlet CDP within Yorktown Heights. He split his time between football and baseball, and when playing baseball, he split his time between hitting and pitching. In his senior year this past spring, he hit .357/.486/.696 in 18 games with 3 doubles, 5 triples, 2 home runs, 11 stolen bases in as many attempts, and 13 walks to 19 strikeouts. On the mound, he appeared in 5 total games and posted a 2.58 ERA in 19.0 innings, allowing 11 hits, walking 7, and striking out 41.
The 6’1”, 170-pound Frobose stands square at the plate, holding his hands high and wrapping his bat behind his head, resting it on his shoulder and then angling it towards the pitcher during the pitcher’s delivery. He swings with a leg kick and very little load or weight shift forward. He swings a quick stick with a bit of loft and has registered 100+ MPH exit velocities in batting practice. Defensively, the right-hander has a strong arm and looks good on the dirt.
On the mound, Frobose throws from a three-quarters arm slot, dropping-and-driving off the mound, lowering his release point and giving him a flatter approach angle. His fastball sits in the low-90s, which is up a bit from where it sat only months earlier. During showcase events in Staten Island and Jersey during the summer of 2024, the pitch mainly sat in the high-80s. He trained at the Gap2Gap Sports Performance and worked with Cincinnati prospect and local Westchesterite Sammy Stafura over the winter, increasing his strength. The pitch has a bit of arm-side life, and has been recorded as high as 2600 RPM, which is a well-above average, elite spin rate for a fastball, giving it above-average rising life as well. Frobose pairs his fastball with a low-70s curveball a mid-to-high-70s slurve, and a mid-80s changeup, but both pitches are still very raw.
A Yankee fan growing up, Frobose had a commitment to Rutgers University but has announced that he will be forgoing it in order to play professionally and will forgo his rooting allegiance to the Yankees to play for the Mets.
