Amir Garrett

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@Jamieblog: Another favorite, @Amir_Garrett took the hard-luck loss yesterday at Tampa. Fired 6.0 strong innings (6h, 2r/1er, 0bb, 7k) #Reds

@SpiritualChick: @Amir_Garrett way to go son! Making or last name look great in baseballhttp://t.co/tzbWxwBfFS
 
@Jamieblog: Another favorite, @Amir_Garrett took the hard-luck loss yesterday at Tampa. Fired 6.0 strong innings (6h, 2r/1er, 0bb, 7k) #Reds

@SpiritualChick: @Amir_Garrett way to go son! Making or last name look great in baseballhttp://t.co/tzbWxwBfFS
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I'm rooting for Amir on the whole, but since Tampa is a Yankees affiliate, I'm happy about this. ;)
 
The Reds took over the Cubs Daytona Beach franchise. The Reds, or should I say The Tortugas, play in the Florida State League, high Class 'A'. I work at the Stadium in Jupiter so I will get to see him play when they come in. If you start strong in Class 'A' you are usually moving up by the All Star game.
 
The Reds took over the Cubs Daytona Beach franchise. The Reds, or should I say The Tortugas, play in the Florida State League, high Class 'A'. I work at the Stadium in Jupiter so I will get to see him play when they come in. If you start strong in Class 'A' you are usually moving up by the All Star game.
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Too bad he didn't play baseball for St johns
 
The Reds took over the Cubs Daytona Beach franchise. The Reds, or should I say The Tortugas, play in the Florida State League, high Class 'A'. I work at the Stadium in Jupiter so I will get to see him play when they come in. If you start strong in Class 'A' you are usually moving up by the All Star game.
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Too bad he didn't play baseball for St johns
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In Amir's freshman year, St. John's made it to the NCAA Super Regionals (one step away from the College World Series) where they lost a best of 3 series to the eventual National Champions, Arizona.

Amir had not played in two years, so I am not sure how much help he might have been.
 
@dougdirt24: Amir Garrett is done for the night: 5IP, 3H, 1ER, 3BB, 6K.
 
@Jamieblog: .@Amir_Garrett popped the mitt at 98 yesterday. He gave up a run on 3 hits in 5.0 innings yesterday for those same @daytonatortugas
 
The Reds took over the Cubs Daytona Beach franchise. The Reds, or should I say The Tortugas, play in the Florida State League, high Class 'A'. I work at the Stadium in Jupiter so I will get to see him play when they come in. If you start strong in Class 'A' you are usually moving up by the All Star game.
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Too bad he didn't play baseball for St johns
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In Amir's freshman year, St. John's made it to the NCAA Super Regionals (one step away from the College World Series) where they lost a best of 3 series to the eventual National Champions, Arizona.

Amir had not played in two years, so I am not sure how much help he might have been.
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I'm assuming that in the low minors, Amir was given room to grow and work on his command. W's and L's matter little to MLB teams when it comes to developing players in the minors. He may be instructed to throw all curve balls or sliders for a few outings. HE may get his work in no matter how much he is struggling. Being that Garrett was hitting about 83 mph when he arrived at SJU. Being that he didn't have this kind of stuff when he arrived, and that D1 college ball isn't really there to develop projects, I am not sure he'd have had much value then
 
The Reds took over the Cubs Daytona Beach franchise. The Reds, or should I say The Tortugas, play in the Florida State League, high Class 'A'. I work at the Stadium in Jupiter so I will get to see him play when they come in. If you start strong in Class 'A' you are usually moving up by the All Star game.
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Too bad he didn't play baseball for St johns
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In Amir's freshman year, St. John's made it to the NCAA Super Regionals (one step away from the College World Series) where they lost a best of 3 series to the eventual National Champions, Arizona.

Amir had not played in two years, so I am not sure how much help he might have been.
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I'm assuming that in the low minors, Amir was given room to grow and work on his command. W's and L's matter little to MLB teams when it comes to developing players in the minors. He may be instructed to throw all curve balls or sliders for a few outings. HE may get his work in no matter how much he is struggling. Being that Garrett was hitting about 83 mph when he arrived at SJU. Being that he didn't have this kind of stuff when he arrived, and that D1 college ball isn't really there to develop projects, I am not sure he'd have had much value then
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He wasn't a project and he could throw a lot harder than 83 mph. The Reds gave him a million dollar bonus.
 
The Reds took over the Cubs Daytona Beach franchise. The Reds, or should I say The Tortugas, play in the Florida State League, high Class 'A'. I work at the Stadium in Jupiter so I will get to see him play when they come in. If you start strong in Class 'A' you are usually moving up by the All Star game.
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Too bad he didn't play baseball for St johns
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In Amir's freshman year, St. John's made it to the NCAA Super Regionals (one step away from the College World Series) where they lost a best of 3 series to the eventual National Champions, Arizona.

Amir had not played in two years, so I am not sure how much help he might have been.
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I'm assuming that in the low minors, Amir was given room to grow and work on his command. W's and L's matter little to MLB teams when it comes to developing players in the minors. He may be instructed to throw all curve balls or sliders for a few outings. HE may get his work in no matter how much he is struggling. Being that Garrett was hitting about 83 mph when he arrived at SJU. Being that he didn't have this kind of stuff when he arrived, and that D1 college ball isn't really there to develop projects, I am not sure he'd have had much value then
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He wasn't a project and he could throw a lot harder than 83 mph. The Reds gave him a million dollar bonus.
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Didn't he go to a pitcher's camp in California or somewhere after his 2nd season with our team, and over 2 weeks increased his velocity from low 80s to about 93-94? I thought that was the story. Also, he had not pitched since maybe soph or junior year in hs, correct? The Reds gave him $1 million based on his size and how live his arm is. He didn't even have a full compliment of pitches. Basically he told the Reds that if he didn't get $1 million he wouldn't sign and would return to college to play bball.

* Here's a fun fact that many baseball fans aren't aware of. Sandy Koufax, before being signed by the Dodgers as a bonus baby ($50,000 bonus - which required him to be placed immediately on the major league roster), had only pitched 4 games in his life at that point in sandlot, HS, and college combined. Koufax, who played baseball at Lafayette HS in HS, where his coach was the former major leaguer Charlie Sheerin (years later my HS gym and hygiene teacher) was a first baseman. He and teammate Fred WIlpon went to University of Cincinnati, where Koufax again played first base. During his freshman season, a few pitchers got hurt and he badgered his coach to let him pitch. The coach refused his offer, but relented the next season when Koufax displayed a blazing fastball and sharp curve that immediately caught the eye of major league scouts. A bidding war ensued, and the rest is history.
 
The urban legend is that after his playing career, Cookie Lavagetto was scouting for the Dodgers and is at the Parade Grounds diamonds near Prospect Park in Brooklyn and sees this lefty throwing balls that look like they're in the dirt behind a cage with boards around the bottom so you can't see the catcher. However, the catcher's mitt keeps popping with each pitch and Lavagetto went to investigate. It was Koufax who was at Ebbets Field as a Dodger when he was 18.
 
The urban legend is that after his playing career, Cookie Lavagetto was scouting for the Dodgers and is at the Parade Grounds diamonds near Prospect Park in Brooklyn and sees this lefty throwing balls that look like they're in the dirt behind a cage with boards around the bottom so you can't see the catcher. However, the catcher's mitt keeps popping with each pitch and Lavagetto went to investigate. It was Koufax who was at Ebbets Field as a Dodger when he was 18.
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High school teammate of Fred Wilpon. Wilpon will tell you he was the staff's ace till he got hurt and Koufax went to college on a basketball scholarship, not St John's unfortunately
 
The Reds took over the Cubs Daytona Beach franchise. The Reds, or should I say The Tortugas, play in the Florida State League, high Class 'A'. I work at the Stadium in Jupiter so I will get to see him play when they come in. If you start strong in Class 'A' you are usually moving up by the All Star game.
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Too bad he didn't play baseball for St johns
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In Amir's freshman year, St. John's made it to the NCAA Super Regionals (one step away from the College World Series) where they lost a best of 3 series to the eventual National Champions, Arizona.

Amir had not played in two years, so I am not sure how much help he might have been.
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I'm assuming that in the low minors, Amir was given room to grow and work on his command. W's and L's matter little to MLB teams when it comes to developing players in the minors. He may be instructed to throw all curve balls or sliders for a few outings. HE may get his work in no matter how much he is struggling. Being that Garrett was hitting about 83 mph when he arrived at SJU. Being that he didn't have this kind of stuff when he arrived, and that D1 college ball isn't really there to develop projects, I am not sure he'd have had much value then
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D1 college ball isn't there to develop projects???
 
Wikipedia or Beastipedia. Which one is more accurate?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Koufax
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http://www.amazon.com/dp/0061779008/?tag=osn+koufax

One of the best baseball books you will read. Jane Leavy not only writes about Koufax and baseball, but growing up in Brooklyn, and the social circumstances for Jews in NYC at the time (40s and 50s).

The details of him telling his college coach he could pitch and being rebuffed by his college coach are well documented in this book, which I think you'd be particularly interested in.

Thanks for being my fact checker. When I resume writing professionally, I'll add you to my staff. But then I'd want you to use a better source than Wikipedia.

I write from memory, so not all details are correct (such as Wilpon following him to the same college - but that's an insignificant detail). The very limited experience he had as a pitcher are well chronicled, which is the most significant piece of information in this thread since Garrett was signed with almost no experience as a pitcher and none as a collegian. But you can check who his HS coach was, and that's accurate, that he was a first baseman, and if you care, that Lafayette's football field is named for Harry Ostro, who brought Sheerin along to Queens when he changed schools.
 
Wikipedia or Beastipedia. Which one is more accurate?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Koufax
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http://www.amazon.com/dp/0061779008/?tag=osn+koufax

One of the best baseball books you will read. Jane Leavy not only writes about Koufax and baseball, but growing up in Brooklyn, and the social circumstances for Jews in NYC at the time (40s and 50s).

The details of him telling his college coach he could pitch and being rebuffed are well documented in this book, which I think you'd be particularly interested in.

Thanks for being my fact checker. When I resume writing professionally, I'll add you to my staff. But then I'd want you to use a better source than Wikipedia.
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I'll be standing by my phone, waiting for your call. Assume I'll be very busy once you're ready to get started.
 
Wikipedia or Beastipedia. Which one is more accurate?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Koufax
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http://www.amazon.com/dp/0061779008/?tag=osn+koufax

One of the best baseball books you will read. Jane Leavy not only writes about Koufax and baseball, but growing up in Brooklyn, and the social circumstances for Jews in NYC at the time (40s and 50s).

The details of him telling his college coach he could pitch and being rebuffed are well documented in this book, which I think you'd be particularly interested in.

Thanks for being my fact checker. When I resume writing professionally, I'll add you to my staff. But then I'd want you to use a better source than Wikipedia.
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I'll be standing by my phone, waiting for your call. Assume I'll be very busy once you're ready to get started.
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Don't worry. I'm very demanding, but considering your talents will be agreeable to have you work in the manner that best suits your skills :)
 
Wikipedia or Beastipedia. Which one is more accurate?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Koufax
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http://www.amazon.com/dp/0061779008/?tag=osn+koufax

One of the best baseball books you will read. Jane Leavy not only writes about Koufax and baseball, but growing up in Brooklyn, and the social circumstances for Jews in NYC at the time (40s and 50s).
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About 5 years ago, she wrote a biography of Mickey Mantle that was very good, too.
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Thanks for that information - I just picked it up for my Kindle, and then realized I had already read it. The good thing is that Amazon knew I purchased it in print and only charge me $2.99 for the Kindle version - I think.

Those not familiar with Jane Leavy's writing should know that it's not the typical sports drivel. She weaves social circumstances around the athlete's biography which makes her books far more interesting and informative than those written by some sports beat writers. It's generally devoid of sports cliches as well. Laura Hillenbrand is also a phenomenal writer, and even if you aren't a fan of horse racing, Seabiscuit is a phenomenal read. (She also wrote Unbroken, another fantastic read.)
 
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