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6'2 Lefthander.

16 years old.

Throws 90 - with movement.

Not many really know about him yet.

Moved from Alabama to N.Carolina last year.

I am not very good at the pitching stuff - but this may be a guy you want to put on the radar screen.

Hope all is well and regards - Paul
You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. ~Jim Bouton, Ball Four, 1970
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Originally posted by itsinthegame:
6'2 Lefthander.

16 years old.

Throws 90 - with movement.

Not many really know about him yet.

Moved from Alabama to N.Carolina last year.

I am not very good at the pitching stuff - but this may be a guy you want to put on the radar screen.

Hope all is well and regards - Paul



Yikes! Not so sure throwing that hard at 16 is a good thing? Could be a curse.

Is he touching 90 or sitting at it?
Yeah - could be a curse - then again - could be a blessing too.

Sometimes he touches it - sometimes he sits on it - and when he brings a recliner with him - sometimes he lays on it.

Do me a favor - please - direct your asinine comments to someone else.[/QUOTE]

WTF is this supposed to mean? Glad you can climb into the mind of others and know what they are talking about.

The reason I asked was because was because I know of a kid that was throwing in the high 80's and hitting an occasional 90 at 16. He went to a MLB scouting bureau tryout at 16 and the camp director took the boy asside after the tryout and told him he would do "big things" in baseball. The kid hasn't been able to pick up much on his fastball. But is still hitting the occasional 91. He is now a senior in college at an ACC school and didnt go drafted.
Now most would say a lefty throwing 90 would be a for sure draft pick. Not so.

So that is why I said it could be a curse to be throwing that hard as a 16 year old. If the velo doesnt pick up in the next few years scouts might not think he is getting better. I mean how much harder can someone throw? And I know how much scouts want to see someone improve (projectability)

So please do us all a favor and quit being a presumptuous, world class Jack A$$!
its,

We saw a 16 year old throwing 93 today. That gets a person a bit excited. Even if he never improves in the next two years he has an above average Major League fastball.

BTW, there's a 16 year old we had at our Junior National that throws 96 from the mound and 97 across the infield. Also hit a couple out of Tropicana Field.

I do understand what "DI" is getting at. But 6'2" 16 year old lefties already throwing 90 is pretty special.

Thanks for the tip on the Tate kid. You can bet that we will be looking him up. If he ends up doing something great, We'll remember where we first heard about him.

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