A scouts comment about Aaron Nola from LSU, probably one of the best pitchers in nation this year: “Nola kind of gets knocked because he’s not the biggest guy to begin with. It’s not 95, 96. He’ll pitch with a 55, maybe 60 fastball, but it plays like a 70 fastball because of the life and command (on a 20-80 scale). Its Alive mix three pitches, throw strikes, not afraid to pitch to contact. He will throw a strike to get a ground ball rather than be like, ‘OK, I’ve got to strike that guy out.’ Maybe it’s not that ‘Wow!’ type stuff, but at the end he just beats you again. You hate to say it, but he’s almost that college Greg Maddux. If you need to win a big game, give him the ball and trust him with it. He gets knocked for not being that power-type pitcher, but in the end all he does is win, and we talk about command and control of the fastball, and this guy probably has the best command/control in the country.”
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:07:35 +0000
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