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Maawdawg
04-28-2009, 12:49 PM
Pretty crazy stuff. I can't see how he would go to college after this season. Lefties with that kind of stuff command monster money straight out of high school.

http://sports.espn.go.com/highschool/rise/baseball/news/story?id=4107116

There are a bunch of other stories on him if you do a google search.
SuperJay
04-28-2009, 01:21 PM
Huh.

You know, I just learned a ton of stuff about pitching the other day. I had no idea :)
Maawdawg
04-28-2009, 01:50 PM
Pitching is really a lot harder and involves a lot more thinking than a lot of people give it credit for. I pitched for 5 or 6 years (playing first base or CF on off days) through when I was about 18 until I stopped playing baseball. I can't imagine even throwing a no hitter, let along spinning 4 in a row.
SuperJay
04-28-2009, 02:21 PM
Yeah, there's more to it than I ever imagined. My girl is a big Red Sox fan and she was droppin some knowledge on me last week. (I'm teaching her about hockey and she's doing the same with baseball, which she's much more familiar with.) I had no idea that an MLB team has so many pitchers, that it was so physically demanding that people can't pitch two back-to-back games and stuff like that.
Maawdawg
04-28-2009, 02:32 PM
Yeah, most teams carry 12-13 pitchers, 5 or which would be starters. A normal rotation you pitch then halfway to your next start you throw a "side session", which is a lower intensity workout, usually simulated game activity with mixed pitches and work on mechanics and location.



I am a huge Sawx fan, as my grandfather was. He used to go to spring training every couple years and stay there for the whole preseason.
<= see, I am living right in the middle of Red Sox Nation :D

The way the game is managed now really limits how much people pitch, as little as 20 years ago people would throw 10-20 complete games in a year and pitch in a 4 man rotation instead of 5. With the investment and expense of big pitching teams really protect the players' health now. Starting in the mid to late 80s specialized relievers starting being used and "closers" as they are now really came into being. Before all relievers were expected to be able to go 2-3 innings every time out. Now there are way more 1 inning (or even 1 batter in the case of left handers) specialists.