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Baseball Beginnings on Archie Bradley, No. 7, Diamondbacks

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June 6, 2011

Today the Arizona Diamondbacks selected Archie Bradley in the 1st round (#7 overall) in the 2011 MLB Draft. Baseball Beginnings has been scouting Bradley from the start of the draft cycle. Enjoy links to the content we have published on him through the year.

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Scouting Video: Archie Bradley, RHP, Broken Arrow (OK) HS (2011 Draft)

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May 25, 2011

Archie Bradley is one of the very few high school right-handed starting pitchers I have seen since we started the site who I really felt was advanced. For all the talk about will he-won’t he sign, who is better Bradley or Bundy, I have always been a Bradley guy. This takes nothing from Bundy, who I think is an absolute horse. Bradley reminds me of Mussina, but with more power. Look how smooth and clean he is in the Aflac look. There are a lot of breaking balls in this look. Some of them are get-them-over and one or two of them are very, sharp sliders. I’m shutting up. Watch the kid pitch.

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Scouting Video: Archie Bradley, RHP, Broken Arrow (OK) HS (2011 Draft)

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March 23, 2011

Archie Bradley has all the makings of a guy who ought to develop into a durable right-handed workhorse starter capable of pitching 200 innings and winning in double-figures. The athleticism is here and so is the competitiveness. The stuff is here, too. He’s got a live, loose arm and he can throw a hammer. You can read all the details in the scouting report I wrote a few months back, but for now, here’s what the video looks like.

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Scouting Report: Archie Bradley, RHP, Broken Arrow (OK) HS (2011 Draft)

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November 1, 2010

Archie Bradley, from Oklahoma, land of Warren Spahn and Allie Reynolds. I’m sticking with my old-school Allie Reynolds comp. Bradley is a great guy to really kick off the 2011 Draft reports. As we say, the better the guy, the easier he is to write.

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First Look: 2011 Draft Prospects (High School Pitchers)

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September 28, 2010

Yes, the 2010 Draft cycle was bountiful for high school pitching. A ton of guys were putting 90s and better up in the summer before the draft. That’s not the case this year, where the big arms really stand out. If you’re really a devotee of the scouting arts and not completely reliant on the radar gun to make your decisions for you, you will find some guys on this list who won’t be 86-88 in a few years. Which ones? Anyone’s guess. But use projection, look at arm speed, look at body, look for smoothness and you will find the big leaguers who come from the masses.

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Scouting Update: Archie Bradley, RHP, Broken Arrow (OK) HS (2011 Draft)

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September 17, 2010

Being a well-meaning West Coaster, I can only imagine that Oklahoma’s pride in its football statewide rivals that of that other state below them. It’s football season now, which means right-handed pitcher Archie Bradley is moonlighting as a quarterback, though that’s a bad word for it. I can’t help you break down quarterbacks, but I can break down right-handed pitching.

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Bradley Throws Bullets at Aflac

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August 15, 2010

SAN DIEGO – With apologies to anyone else in this baseball game, right-hander Archie Bradley is an absolute horse.

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Scouting Video: Archie Bradley, RHP, Broken Arrow (OK) HS (2011 Draft)

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July 5, 2010

Archie Bradley will be no secret in the 2011 draft. I had my first look in summer 2009.

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2011 Draft Sneak Peak: Gentleman, Start Your Horses

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June 15, 2010

No sooner does one draft cycle end than the next one begins. The next draft cycle always starts with a group of players pretty much everyone knows, but from now until next June, the draft cycle is nothing but a horserace. What follows are some of the prospects that I have already seen and will see more of in 2011.

This is not meant to be a complete list or a ranking, and if this story is the first time you are discovering Baseball Beginnings, we invite you to stick around throughout the year to see video and read about the players we are talking about. If you stay with us, by the time draft day rolls around, I promise you many players that are not even in this story will come alive for you through video, scouting reports, scouting updates and interviews.

If you’re a 2011 prospect and you’re not in this story, it doesn’t mean you are not a prospect. It just means I haven’t seen you yet. If you can play, chances are I will find you.

Here, then, is a sneak peak at what is inside the 2011 stable, both high school and college, on a national scale.

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Area Codes Game 12: Moore Justice for Midwest pitchers; Ficociello keeps hitting

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August 8, 2009

The pitching-rich White Sox team ran out two more right-handers who touched 91 Saturday afternoon at Blair Field in Long Beach, Calif., both powerfully built and capable of more power. Dominic Ficociello continued to hit everything thrown his way – and hit it hard.

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