5/27 FRIDAY MINOR FINAL ... Superb pitching, crappy hitting. Again.

[chipchildress]

I was there Friday night and according to the stadium gun (take it with a grain of salt), he was topping out around 91. Was consistently between 88 and 90. Seemed to my untrained eye that he was throwing a little harder than that. May have just seemed that way since he's so tall. Most of his 10 k's we're due to throwing the ball by people.

where are the math geeks here to tell us how much advantage a guy with his height has? a 92 mph fastball must seem a little faster, no?
i've read he was touching 97 in some article last year. no idea if that's accurate, but to me this guy is one of the most interesting prospects in the system. 6'8" with control and a hard moving fastball shouts out big leaguer to me.