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1 minute ago, sportsfan8703 said:

Is he ranked on any lists?  How much did he sign for?

Don't think he was ranked. No #'s as far as $$$ goes either.

Again though, rankings are great and all but these are 16 yr old kids. There's lots of small signing guys every year that end up being a serious hit every year. Just like some of the top/ranked guys disappear and never work out. 

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Loved the swing at around 4:30 on the video. Pitcher came inside, he pulled his hands in really close and smacked it up the middle, to the right side of the the bag. 

Looks like he got big quick. The beginning of the video is October 2017 and the end of the video is Feb 2017, and you can see how much bigger he is between those two clips. Wonder how big he is now.

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19 minutes ago, joelala said:

Looks like a nice little swing.  Exciting!

Drops the back elbow though a little bit, but hopefully that's a pretty easy fix.  And from the video, his arm doesn't look great.  Still I'm ecstatic that we are actually signing these kids now!

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14 minutes ago, joelala said:

Drops the back elbow though a little bit, but hopefully that's a pretty easy fix.  And from the video, his arm doesn't look great.  Still I'm ecstatic that we are actually signing these kids now!

Had some issues catching the ball cleanly, although some of that could be whatever surface they were playing on down there.

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