Up to 48 years of covering secondary school in southern California, watch so many prolific launchers turn into legendary professional players has been one of the funniest parts of being a preparation sports editor. I learned to always look for someone who can launch strikes.
There was Jack McDowell by Sherman Oaks Notre Dame and Bret Saberhagen from Cleveland in the 1980s. They became cy Young Award winners for the royals of Chicago White Sox and Kansas City, respectively.
In the 1990s, there was Jeff Supern of Crespi, Russ Ortiz de Montclair Prep and Randy Wolf by El Camino Real. In the 21st century, there was Cy Young Winners Gerrit Cole (Orange Lutheran), Shane Bieber (Laguna Hills) and Trevor Bauer (Hart); And the stars Paul Skenes (El Toro), Hunter Greene (Notre Dame), Jack Flaherty (Harvard-Westlake) and Max Fried (Harvard-Westlake).
Elevating these names is to remind everyone how much Seth Hernandez de Corona has been incredibly good from Corona this season when he is preparing for the Southern division 1 qualifiers and is doing so to be the next big launcher of the Southland.
In 42 1/3 rounds, he withdrew 88 strikers walking only three. There has never been someone who launched a rapid 98 mph in adolescence with as much punctual control. In fact, he only struck one striker all season. Adolescents who throw the 90s hit and walk normally.
Not Hernandez. His command is terribly good.
“It was his goal,” said coach Andy Wise about improving his junior season. “What are we going to do to get better and it was his thing n ° 1 to do.”
Hernandez has never suffered a pitch loss since he started playing baseball in high school. He went 9-0 and managed 15 ball goals in 56 rounds last season. This season, he has 8-0 with an MPM of 0.17. Showing his athletics, he also struck five circuits.
For comparison, the closest launcher to the season with this control was probably Flaherty in 2013, when it walked 10 in 89 rounds, withdrew 112 and went 13-0 as a junior. But he did not get closer to Hernandez's speed. Greene launched 101 mi / h and made 10 balls on balls in 55 2/3 innings in 2016, her junior season.
Greene coach to Notre Dame, Tom Dill, said about Hernandez: “You take an arm like that with the ability to launch strikes and the increase is fantastic.”
The Washington Nationals have the first choice of amateur draft this summer. Their managing director attended a Corona match to see Hernandez Pitch.
Attending the high school baseball matches is free, so the best ticket to watch Hernandez Pitch when he should be on the mound next Tuesday when the Corona eliminatory series opened. Couples will be published on Monday, and Corona should have a Bye in the first round when the playoffs start on Thursday.
It is not only its control and its fast ball that are impressive, it is its balance and its throws. He really has all the qualities that scouts want from a pitching perspective, from work ethics to competitiveness to the ability to deal with pressure situations.
If the opponents want him to dedicate a bullet during the qualifying series, that would not act idiot. It would be someone who would understand that they are in the presence of someone that he will one day come to his living room in a stage of Major League.
