How is it that a kid at SDSU (San Diego State University) can throw 99 mile per hour with accuracy, have a 11-0 season so far, pitch an average of 7.24 innings per game and still have a 1.24 ERA, while having 164 strikeouts. That last number alone seems almost impossible. But some how a 20 year old from SDSU has an astounding 164 strikeouts over 12 appearances, averaging 13 per game. Most baseball fans know that some guy in Caly had 23 strikeouts in one game this year and that he's baseball's number one prospect, but did you also know that he has around a 1/10 walks to strikeout ratio, or that out of the 299 batters that faced him this year only 11 of them got past second base on a single hit, or finally that the end of the year strike out leader last year only had 141 strikeouts while this year Stransburg already, as I said before, has 164 (even though Matusz, the leader last year, had made three more appearances).
THE WAY I SEE IT- So when draft day comes around this year and Steven goes number one, like everyone predicts he will, please don't get too mad, shocked, or what ever else you feel when someone gets a giant paycheck thanks to Scott Boras, simply because this guy deserves it. He's a freak of nature who already looks to be a great, if not that, then definitely a very good pitcher of the upcoming years. So Washington, the place of many mistakes on and off the baseball diamond over the past few year, cough... the white house...cough, please don't make another one by trying to get a cheaper player. Because you guys really need this guy. Steven Stransburg, a name that you'll keep hearing for a very long time.
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