Since the poster said Nelson was back in 98. The answer should be quite apparent. In addition looking at the stats would also make the answer quite obvious to anyone familiar with showcases.
TR, I thought you are involved in showcase events and would have been among the last to ask this question.
Did you honestly not know the answer or were you just trying to push an agenda or stir something up?
“The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing”. Philosopher Edmund Burke
Posts: 714 | Location: Midwest | Registered: April 26, 2004
Anyone can post numbers and stats---to make them relevant there needs to be a relationship---what is the relationship here-- do they come from the same events or are the numbers just pulled out of the air from different events at different times
I have no agenda--too darn old for that-- I leave that to you younger guys
If you dont like my approach so be it--I only asked ANDY for a clarification so the numbers can be truly compared---1998 is quite different from 2007 would you not agree?
You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. ~Jim Bouton, Ball Four, 1970
Posts: 6094 | Location: Huntersville,NC | Registered: December 27, 2002
You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. ~Jim Bouton, Ball Four, 1970
Posts: 6094 | Location: Huntersville,NC | Registered: December 27, 2002
good thing ol' Art played in the 60's. Had he played 30 years later, his 21 homerun season would have caused speculation of roid use. It was the statistical equivalent of Brady Anderson's 50 homerun season.
Posts: 332 | Location: right coast | Registered: May 19, 2006
I've seen a lot worse than that in HS. Some of these showcases have 12-13 year old brothers or coaches' kids who sneak in. We had a JV pitcher who topped out around 58.
Posts: 1013 | Location: midwest | Registered: January 02, 2005
I have a story about how much you can get (or not) get from numbers sometimes...
Our son went to a showcase last summer with his grandfather. He had a terrible (9.0 plus)on the 60 yard dash and was rubbing his hip. We took him to the doctor the next day and had it x-rayed. Not good news. He had a several month rehab. We talked about contacting the showcase and having them pull his running stat off, but decided oh, well..he was only going into 10th grade..no big deal.
Fast forward to this spring. We are playing in a tourament. He comes up to bat and the other team's players start yelling to each other "he's the one that's slow". He was thinking, "what"? That's okay because after the first hit, they realize he isn't nearly that slow.No more yelling about how slow he is from the players or their coach.
Obviously, the team had read his stats from that showcase. Oops...
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