MSU Post Draft Fallout

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As an aside to Todd’s post about freshmen being ready to contribute in year 2, I stumbled upon some video and snippets about a couple pitchers.

1st is the bad or worrisome, but not anything that we haven’t known and that is Bauer’s control. The snippet that I read said that he regularly threw as many balls as he did strikes in most of his outings. They did say that he progressed from the fall to the spring in that area, so that’s a little bit of good news. I’m going to learn from Cerantola and not count on anything positive until Bauer does it on the field in a real game multiple times.

2nd is the positive. I saw video of Rhodes and he had that over the top low arm delivery that Landon Sims had that allows him to get alot of spin on his fastball. He was throwing 94/95 but the ball had good ride and pop at the end, making it look 2 or 3 mph faster. In addition to the ride, it had arm side run. Nasty looking fastball. I only saw one breaking ball, but it looked pretty good. The video was a short one where he struck out 3 in the inning in a mlb draft combine game, so the hitters weren’t slouches. I can see why Rhodes was getting a lot of praise and I imagine he would have been a draft risk had he been 6’6” instead of 6’1”.