By John Klima
July 23, 2010
I’ve run across Ryon Healy, formerly of Crespi High, a few times on the trail: Area Codes, Fall Ball, high school, and now summer ball with wood again. He did not get drafted, and really, most teams don’t want to spend money for Division I college players that aren’t 10 minutes away from the big leagues. In Healy’s case, he one’s of an absolute ton of guys Oregon is getting from Southern California. And whenever I see him, I’m pretty much convinced that one of these years I’m going to see legit right-handed power. I can see the signs. For me, I don’t care if it’s not 10 minutes away. I know power production potential when I see it.
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By John Klima
July 18, 2010
Right-hander Nick Kingham is part of the Pittsburgh Pirates draft of 2010 which, for the Pirates, might be best remembered as the year of the right-handed high school starting pitcher. After drafting Taillon and Allie in the first and second rounds, the Pirates missed on A.J. Cole, then went to Kingham, who pitched his way into a ride to Oregon and onto the national radar with a good spring that showed velocity and physicality more in tune with what you draft for in your major league starting right-handers. No matter which way Kingham goes, it’ll be because of the development over the past year. That was the main topic of our conversation for this Baseball Beginnings Q&A.
On a side note, Kingham is a funny kid. Nice guy. He became the second guy in the history of Beginnings (following Angelo Gumbs) to ask me to redo his shot. Kingham picked game face. I said, OK. But I reserve the right to harmlessly give him a hard time for it.
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By John Klima
July 15, 2010
Tyler Anderson is your classic crafty left-hander. Have a look at some pitches at UCLA and we’ll break him down thereafter.
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By John Klima
July 9, 2010
I liked Scott McGough. Didn’t care about the slender body. I thought it worked for him.
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By John Klima
May 8, 2010
Jack Marder and Gerrit Cole meet here on Beginnings after meeting on a recent Friday night. Have fun with the short clip below, then watch, as your head can also explode along with ours at the umpteen hyperlinks to content we have created on these two guys in the last year.
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By John Klima
April 30, 2010
Oregon right-hander Scott McGough is a guy who has a chance to be a very good draft pick in 2011.
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By John Klima
April 23, 2010
Deliberate but fearless, Oregon left-hander Tyler Anderson is about the eighth left-handed pitcher named Tyler we’ve covered here on Beginnings…Matzek, Skaggs, Lyons, Blandford. Ok, well maybe just the fifth.
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By John Klima
April 22, 2010
Jack Marder’s hands worked in high school and they work now.
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By John Klima
February 11, 2010
Nick Kingham is the kind of guy who is fun to scout, mainly because you can take a look at the body type and the arm speed and easily conclude that there’s more in that arm to come.
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By John Klima
January 19, 2010
Tyler Kuresa has a pretty left-handed swing when you watch him from the third base side. You’ll have to trust me and have a look at him from the first base side.
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