BA : Crow and Sheppers Pitching Tonight

[jamesenoch]

http://www.baseballamerica.com/blog/draft/?p=783#more-783

If these 2 perform in the next month as expected, picks #2 through #5 are going to be very interesting and almost impossible to predict, even up to the day of the draft.

[QBsILLEST1]

SWEET! Crow working on a change up? Thats what I wanted to hear!

[ChaosLex]

Any updates?

[JTrea81]

In the Fort Worth exhibition opener Crow went 1.2 innings allowing 3 runs, 1 earned on 3 hits while striking out 3.

Sheppers had a much better debut:

FARGO, ND(May 4, 2009) – Scouts began salivating over Tanner Scheppers long before he took the mound for the St. Paul Saints on Monday night against the Fargo-Moorhead Redhawks. He had them all drooling after his impressive debut as the St. Paul Saints defeated the Redhawks 7-1 on Monday night at Newman Outdoor Field in front of 1,964.

The second round pick of the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 2008 June Amateur draft tossed 4.0 hitless innings walking four and striking out six. Scheppers struck out the side in the first while walking one batter.

In the second he walked the lead off man, got a double play ground out and then walked the third hitter of the inning. He ended the inning with his fourth strike out of the night.

Scheppers would strike out his final two of the night in the third and got his second double play grounder to end the fourth inning and his evening.

[QBsILLEST1]

Dang I hope Scheppers falls to us.....He is one of the few college pitchers in the draft with TOR potential....I wonder if Matusz were in this draft where would he go?

[allstar1579]

Dang I hope Scheppers falls to us.....He is one of the few college pitchers in the draft with TOR potential....I wonder if Matusz were in this draft where would he go?

He'd be the second pitcher taken behind Stras. Scheppers wouldn't have gone before Matusz last year even if he was healthy. Top 10 probably, but Matusz has more polish.

[Hutman]

Interesting aside. He was drafted by the O's in the 29th round in the 2006 draft. Maybe he comes full circle and comes back to the O's.