It is early and it is tough for northern teams starting the season in the south. Different environment, playing surface, and players. For instance, today Auburn is starting a true freshman, Drew Nelson, who Perfect Game rates as Auburn’s 3rd best pitching prospect in their freshman class.
They describe him as: “A primary pitcher, compact delivery with a hip turn and stays coiled. Clean arm action and hides the ball well releasing at a 3/4 slot. There is jump and life to the fastball and misses bats. Can pound both halves and the off speed plays big off the fastball design. 1-7 shape to the curveball with hard bite with extension. The changeup is a true go-to pitch and he will uses it as much as he needs. Great arm speed on the pitch with fade and brakes.”
BTW the top rated player in their class, Ike Irish from Hudsonville MI, has been quite impressive. So it is not news that the SEC has talented kids. However, the bases are still 90’ apart everywhere and our kids are perfectly capable of finding them on defense. We have used a lot of arms and southern umps may have slightly different understanding of what is a strike, but we have struggled at times with location so far. Hitting has been weak except for Glasser.
These kids have talent and will hit, they have more arms than I can ever remember, not stoppers but competent. They need a good effort today to restore some of the confidence they had before they came to the Plains IMO.
They describe him as: “A primary pitcher, compact delivery with a hip turn and stays coiled. Clean arm action and hides the ball well releasing at a 3/4 slot. There is jump and life to the fastball and misses bats. Can pound both halves and the off speed plays big off the fastball design. 1-7 shape to the curveball with hard bite with extension. The changeup is a true go-to pitch and he will uses it as much as he needs. Great arm speed on the pitch with fade and brakes.”
BTW the top rated player in their class, Ike Irish from Hudsonville MI, has been quite impressive. So it is not news that the SEC has talented kids. However, the bases are still 90’ apart everywhere and our kids are perfectly capable of finding them on defense. We have used a lot of arms and southern umps may have slightly different understanding of what is a strike, but we have struggled at times with location so far. Hitting has been weak except for Glasser.
These kids have talent and will hit, they have more arms than I can ever remember, not stoppers but competent. They need a good effort today to restore some of the confidence they had before they came to the Plains IMO.
