By The Baseball Beginnings Guy
May 8, 2012
Grayson Long is one of those Texas kids coming down the Area Code pike that I thought would get better from when I first saw him and pick up speed down the line. I have not seen him since this look in the summer, but I have seen and heard that he’s got a shot to go pretty good. That’s about the best I can do on a write-up of a guy I saw once eight months ago, but hey, I’m not usually wrong with the Texas pitchers off that list I pick. I liked Jenkins, Brickhouse and Crick in past years. This guy is slated for Texas A&M, where he ought to be a guy throwing 94 sometime down the line. He’s mostly playing with off-speed stuff in this otherwise vibrant video.
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By The Baseball Beginnings Guy
August 9, 2011
I woke up this morning to pick up a newspaper (for those of you reading at home who might be too young to remember what a newspaper is, it was like a text message, but with sentences) to find a wire story about the soccer club Real Madrid signing a seven-year old prospect to a contract. Yes, seven years old.
Then I headed over to Blair Field to watch all the old geezers, the 16, 17 and 18-year olds, play Day 5 of the Area Codes, the last full day. Man, how it must stink to be over the hill at age 17. Don’t look back, something might be gaining on you. Satchel Paige said that. No, I don’t have time to explain who Satchel Paige was, other than to say, there ain’t no Satchel here this year. (more…)
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Tags: 2011 Area Code Games, Austin Aune, Austin Dean, Chris Shaw, Clint Coulter, Dylan LaVelle, Felipe Perez, Grayson Long, Hunter Virant, Joe Munoz, Michael Rucker, Riley Ferrell, Taylor Jones, Tim Lopes
By The Baseball Beginnings Guy
August 5, 2011
Who changed the colors around here? Who changed the logo? And wait, where did this menu come from? Nobody told me anything! I’m shocked, shocked to find sarcasm here! Let me have a look around…ok…so the new readers who find us looking for the Area Codes don’t know what we used to look like…ok, so be it. Sometimes, change is for the good.
Pitching usually plays here. Ty Hensley is the best known arm from day one. He was 90-92, but you can find him at 93-94 on a more amped up day. I was fine with this look, mainly because I know more is in the gas tank because of the loose arm and durable body. Fine by me, I know more is in there.
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Tags: 2011 Area Code Games, C.J. Hinojosa, Carson Kelly, Clint Coulter, Grayson Long, Kayden Porter, Kevin McCanna, Theo Alexander, Tony Blanford, Ty Hensley, Zachary Quintana
