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I'll just take your word for it... And Devin Jones fricking sucked.. I don't care what he showed you during a bullpen session when there wasn't a batter in the box... His ERA was like 8.25 during his career... That's not good.. Doesn't matter how well you could pull the string on your slider when there wasn't a hitter in the box.. Jones's biggest accomplishment in college was making the SEC academic honor roll

Exactly. That is the difference between "stuff" and actual success.

My initial(and continued) thought is simply about how good Evan Mitchell has the POTENTIAL to be. Doesn't mean he will necessarily ever do a damn thing. I certainly have yet to see the breakthrough game that tells me he has arrived -- like I did in the first SEC series of Stratton's JR yr(LSU).

I compared him to Stratton because that is who he is most similar to physically -- in ALL of his pitches, movement, velocity, etc... The "growing up" mentally is the part that is still wait and see.

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Posted by reggierayreb

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Posted on 2/17/13 at 10:57 pm to engie

And I only talked shite about that quote twice.. Not 4 or 5 times.

It takes a really great pitcher on the collegiate level to have a WHIP under 1.. That's the most important pitching stat in baseball imho and it's gonna be difficult for someone to repeat that... Stratton was special... Like you said.. There's at least 4 legitimate Friday starter candidates on State's team... Who knows ? Maybe State has a starter post a WHIP of .87 this season.. But that's doubtful... Congrats again on the sweep.

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