9-News: 42.056 – Scouts Impressed With Soufax
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9-News: 42.056 – Scouts Impressed With Soufax
Selected in the supplemental first round of the 2041 draft, 19-year-old Kandy Soufax came into the organization with a major buzz surrounding him. “It’s something about his name,” one young woman said. “Kandy Soufax. I mean, who wouldn’t love a guy like that?” Scouts loved him, too, but for different reasons. At 6’6” and 195 pounds, his frame is athletic, and at 100 MPH his fastball was sizzling.
His 2.42 ERA in 11 Rookie ball games didn’t cause the pot to stir any less,and when scouts reported that the kid everyone back home knows as “The Boychick from New Brunswick” started his workout routine in the off season many scouts got to drooling even more rabidly than that youthful fan with a Big Niner in her hands.
As a result, the team jumped him past Short A this year. Soufax has not disappointed. While the record is only 1-4, he’s thrown a 3.22 ERA while striking out sixty hitters in his sixty-four innings. Not bad for a 19-year-old at that level. Better, reports come that the club has upgraded his fastball, and say that he’s now added a tick to it, often getting it up to 101 MPH. Yes, he still needs to work on his control, but the team is optimistic, and word is that the club is willing to drop a lot of developmental resources his way.
“The kid is a GM’s pet,” said one insider. “All you hear from Collins’s office is mumbling about more TN for Kandy ... he needs all the PPT, and when are we going to hire a power coach for this kid?
As if Collins doesn’t control that himself.
Soufax projects to guy who throws three elite pitches and a slider that almost works. If he gets to the bigs and still tops out at that 101 or better range, he could become a fan fave.
Oh, to be nineteen years old, right?
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Re: 9-News: 42.056 – Scouts Impressed With Soufax
gotta root for a kid with that name!
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