Quote Originally Posted by HSVDawg View Post
I never did get the "Pilk is a legit SEC ace talk" that people repeated enough times that they believed it. When has he proven he had Dakota Hudson / Chris Stratton type stuff for 2-3 times through the lineup? Not saying he won't improve, but shit the guy only went longer than 4-5 innings once or twice last year. I don't see why he was expected to just transform into a Friday night stud. And I don't really care what he did in summer ball or fall practice. Until he does it in games that matter, it's an unknown. I view his ceiling this year as being equivalent to a decent SEC Saturday guy. But he is our Friday guy, which is a problem.
He dominated the Cape Cod League. D1Baseball.com which I doubt reads any MSU message boards named him the number three draft prospect for his class two days ago. He had a bad inning where an OF took a bad route on a fly ball and the inning fell apart. I think he had what was it? Eight K's through 3 IP against a pretty good Big 12 team. Hudson got worked out of the game last year by FAU and if I recall correctly he had some command issues leading to people questioning him and about whether he was an ace or not too.