Reply to "Who was the best pitcher you ever witnessed pitch at the HS level?"

Rob T5,000+ posts

Saw John Hope pitch when I was in HS. He was somewhere in the mid-90's at the time and would add in this curve that was so slow it looked like an ephus pitch. You almost had time to swing at it twice.

He went to Pittsburgh in the 2nd round, blew up his arm in the minors and never really was the same. He had a couple of unsuccessful seasons in the majors and then hung it up.

My son ended up going to him for a while for pitching lessons a couple of years ago.

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