Steven Strasburg coming to town

It's going to be fun to watch, and I'm glad TCU has a radar gun on their scoreboard. Does it reach triple digits though?

Hope to make it. Have a good time out there KD.

I'm taking my son to go see him too - I was looking for some info on if he'd be pitching Friday night or not.

I'll root for TCU, but 101 mph and a cold/wet Friday night might make for a tough night for the Frogs.

If you go to the San Diego State website and read some of the reports on Strasburg, you will see he is 4-0 this year, and all of those are Friday night starts, thus the assumption he is starting this Friday in Fort Worth.

The guy is averaging 19.5 strikeouts per game. That is 7 or 8 batted balls in fair territory per game...pretty impressive.

I don't want to be redundant -- I have not read the article highlighted above -- but I understand he is considered, my some, to be the best college baseball player ever <-- pretty steep praise, eh? The Nationals are making plans to pay the highest bonus ever given to an amateur player. Cool that he's coming to town this weekend.

My son and I are going to the game Friday. Can't wait to see this kid throw. Going to be very cold though with a lot of wind which is too bad. Wished it was 80 and sunny would make it that much more enjoyable. Fortunately he does not play until Saturday so at least we are able to see the game.

Baseball America, Mar 8th had a story on Strasberg. It asked the question, "How does a pitcher go from obscurity to the top of the draft? It offers the answer 1) hit 101mph, 2) outduel the first pitcher taken in last year's draft, 3) stike out 23 batters in a game.

As a HS senior Strasberg was touching 90mph, was 6-4 and 250lb. He dropped 30lb his first semester at SDSU and added 8 mph on his fb between his freshman and sophomore seasons at SDSU.

Read the Strasburg thread on the General Items forum. Great insights and scouting reports from PGStaff!

Infield08
That was a nice double your son hit last Saturday.

Hey, thanks! I didn't realize you were at the game. Would have loved to meet you!

Is this definite? I have a hall pass tonight to go. Hate to drive to FW and find out he's been bumped to tomorrow.

I haven't found anything definite yet. I did see an article in the SDSU newspaper stating that he would "likely pitch Friday night against TCU."

I do know that he last pitched Saturday against BYU; he went 7 innings and there has been no mention of an injury. So, every indication is that he will pitch tonight.

I'm betting on it and will be there with multiple layers of clothes on! It'll be interesting if he can hit 100 mph in these conditions - I have my doubts.

Does anybody know if the game is still on? We are rained out in Mesquite.

Daughter said it was not raining in FW when it was coming down hard on the east side of the metroplex. So, I think it's on.

RockSon2 and me made the drive and sat thru the cold (39F) on Friday to see Strasburg. Here's some pics for those that couldn't be there.









Entire image set is here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/s...s/72157616054075108/

Kudos to the TCU lead-off hitter, Ben Carruthers. He welcomed Strasburg to Fort Worth by taking a fastball deep, about 340ft down the left field line just inside the foul pole.

.rockdad

It was COLD! Well worth the discomfort though. I sat behind some scouts during inning 8. Mostly breaking balls in the inning. Still had 94mph steam on his FB in the 8th.

RD, was that your son who cleaned up the 6th inning for the Frogs?