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Tue, 08 Jun 2010 01:06:30 +0000

[...] At first glance, you would see that Simpson actually has some impressive college numbers as he was 13-1 with a 1.81 ERA, 131 SO in 99.1 innings pitched for Southern Arkansas. But here is the catch to those numbers, Simpson did it in division II baseball, not the more prestige division I baseball. Which is yet another reason why the Cubs made a mistake by taking Simpson with the 17th overall selection. “He’s putting together about as good of a college career as you can. I think he’s 28-1 or 29-1 in college now. I’m not sure what year he lost a game, I know it wasn’t this one. I haven’t seen him a second time, but I saw his first start of the year and. . . they left him in a little longer than you’d like to see—I think he threw 115 pitches in his first start—but he was sitting 92-94 and touching 96 for the first couple innings. It fell off a little bit but he can spin a curveball too. He’s not a big guy—I would say he’s about 5-11, 175—but he’s got a good arm and his numbers are backing it up. His delivery gets out of whack every once in a while and he struggles throwing strikes, but he can usually put it back together. His stuff is just overpowering at that level. I think he’s striking out 13 or 14 per nine and guys aren’t making solid contact off of him at all. I think he’s a bullpen guy. That first outing, he fell back down to 90-92 late in the game. He never dipped below 90 on my gun and he reached back a couple times when he saw the finish line. BASEBALL AMERICA [...]

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