A scout's dream come true, if the story is true. I thought it was a reprisal of the Sidd Finch story, but it's not April Fool's Day.
from Yahoo Sports:
The 100-mph-throwing art school kid: An incredible story of a scouting find - Yahoo Sports:
"About 10 scouts showed up last fall for the Academy of Art University baseball team's pro day. They munched on powdered donuts and sipped the gratis Sunny D and figured this was like any other small-college showcase: a waste of a morning. The position players finished running the 60-yard dash when up walked one more kid, a pitcher for the tiny San Francisco school, who asked the scouts if he could try. They looked up and nodded. Brandon Poulson stood 6-foot-7 and weighed 240 pounds with 8 percent BODY FAT. "He's like Ivan Drago," said Elliott Strankman, a Minnesota Twins scout there that day. "You know that scene in Rocky IV – 'Whatever he hits … he destroys.' That's what he reminds me of.""'via Blog this'
It just goes to show that if you have talent, they will find you.
Heck, they found Bobby Jenks in the mountains of Idaho hanging out with the Unabomber and Billy Wagner throwing 100 MPH in the coal mines of West Virginia.
I forgot about the legend of the Rays brush with "Toe" Nash.
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