Quote Originally Posted by messageboardsuperhero View Post
His pitches supposedly have a ridiculous amount of movement. It's always good to have a softer throwing lefty out of the pen who has good movement, location, and can change speeds. I'm glad our coaches aren't falling in love with pro prospects exclusively; it's good to have a nice mixture of good prospects and good college players. That's what got us to where we were this past year, but we did need a few more big time stars IMO. Now, our coaches are getting the stars and the grinders, whereas in the past we were mostly blue-collar guys with a few big time players. A more even mixture should help us, as long as we don't get Bianco syndrome and only go after prototypes and recruiting stars.

Also, wasn't Justin Pigott left-handed too? He might have been a righty, but if memory serves me, he was a lefty.
I looked it up, and you are correct- Pigott is Left handed.

I agree with you about having a good mixture of pro prospects and good college players. I've seen some people on sixpack say that if you have guys that are making it to their senior year in baseball, you aren't recruiting the way you are supposed to. That's just simply not true. Where would we have been without guys like Caleb Reed, Mitch Slauter, Alex Detz, etc.? More specifically, you need guys that are hard workers that know what MSU baseball is all about and a lot of times those players play above their ability because they are living out their dream. The guys with the MLB type talent- that attitude hopefully rubs off on them and it pushes them a little bit too. And you do need the MLB talent to win. But like you said- you have to have a good mix. You need guys that are willing to be a middle reliever and not worry about what that might do to their draft stock, guys like Trey Porter who are OK with coming off the bench and being a pinch hitter, etc.