re: Friday Baseball Thread

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I am ready to be hurt again by a misspelled rubber

Dudes a beast

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I'm thankful to every coach in the SEC for continuing to pitch to him and making it possible. Maybe they can't figure it out just like the pro scouts.

“I was talking a team the other day that picks pretty high in the draft, and we were talking about how improbable it is for a potential No. 1 pick be that ‘unrecruited’ and ‘unregarded’ and redshirting as a freshman and all that,” Callis said of Condon this week. “I went back and checked and he played in 58 Perfect Game events in the Marietta area, where there are a million of them. How did somebody not see him?”

Scouts were around. One of Condon’s teammates, Gino Groover, signed with North Carolina State out of high school and was drafted as a third baseman last year by Arizona Diamondbacks with the 48th pick. But like college baseball recruiters and everybody else who came through Marietta during that time, they simply didn’t see the potential in the tall, skinny two-sport athlete that he saw in himself."

AJC