Garrett Crochet, the White Sox top pick in the 2020 Draft hit, 101 mph during a dominant inning in his Major League debut against the Reds! He is the first player from the 2020 MLB Draft to make it to the Show!
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So you get drafted right in the first round and then you say well i’ll go through the minor leagues and then i’ll make it to the majors at some point hopefully soon hopefully soon as a couple months later for young garrett crochet 21 years old the left-hander with the
Fastball and the wipeout slider who comes out of the university of tennessee to the chicago white sox 11th overall 2020 draft he’s out of the state of mississippi talking to him a little bit during the early part of the pandemic just for about 20 minutes on skype
He is a very confident young man he believes in his abilities he’s got a nasty slider and you see chris sale reaching the majors the year being drafted back in 2010 there have been some comparisons not from sox people but just the profile of crochet tall slender
Lefty with a wipeout slider to a guy like chris sale well i mean obviously you’re gonna draw the comparisons because it’s the nearest thing to chris sale that we’ve had and here he is a guy that throws this hard and has that slider like chris sale has had over his career but the
Difference is what i have checked numbers wise you know you’re going off a potential with crochet because his numbers in college just weren’t wipe out numbers and to me that means he was just overthrowing the baseball first pitch down and away 88 miles an hour but i mean this is really a no-lose
Situation for the sox you’re walking up toward the playoffs you know that for sure and you get crochet into a six one game in cincinnati perfect right well yasmani grandahl just got shocked by that breaking ball upstairs well and then he just he he pointed to his eyes like i couldn’t see it
So i don’t know what exactly that meant or maybe he’s telling him hey check the signs a little better that may have been one finger uh you know you crossed me up one and one is oh boy a fastball at a hundred that’ll knock you off the plate
Pretty quick if you’re brian goodwin uh who has no tape of crochet for the miners you got to watch sec network yeah this is interesting i talk about all legs coming at you by the way garrett crochet let me let me just explain what i’m seeing right now jason
Um that last fastball at 100 miles an hour from the delivery he’s featuring it seems effortless and for a hitter you know it’s there before you can even think about it well you can see why mike shirley and the sox staff love the arm oh i can definitely see that and numbers wise
The key is going to be can he command the strike zone i think he can be taught as you see the high leg kick and the definite drive long stride and creating a lot of torque with that upper body 100 strike three garrett crochet keep that baseball his first major league strikeout
Just a couple of months after he was drafted how about his year i mean look we’ve talked about how bad 2020 has been for the world and for the nation but right now garrett crochet he couldn’t think this is a better year in his whole life the dream come true
First big league batter faced and he strikes him out just like his dream probably has been forever to get to the big leagues with this arm and strike guys out right now just stop in this moment who’s having a better 2020 than garrett crochet across the world no one
First pitch fouled away at 100 strike one you know we can also draw a quick comparison to uh randy johnson when he first got to the big leagues he threw two pitches into a fastball and an occasional slider that he couldn’t command and then he figured out how to
Throw that for a strike and everything changed 101 on the fastball and easy for garrett crochet well you know right now i just look at uh yasmani grandal he’s looking at his glove his mitt he’s going wait a minute is it okay think about having to catch that it
Doesn’t feel good on the hand if you miscatch it just a little bit start calling a lot more sliders oh two fastball inside get out of here two down garrett crochet is carving it makes me think about amir garrett the short reliever for the reds that’s
Watching this going okay hold on is this guy trying to copy me as garrett emir garrett has a huge leg kick as well and a good fastball not at this speed but this is something special to watch right now and let’s see him do it again how about tucker barnhart lefty lefty
Good luck to you and here’s the last pitch and you can actually see that uh crochet he pulls his head off of target as violent as that delivery is at the finish his head kind of pulls down he loses sight of the target but he’s already
Locked it in in his mind when he’s releasing the baseball and it’s going in the direction he’s hoping it ends up right he’s he’s right on top of you so perceived velocity right you’re it’s a hundred yes you’re seeing 102 103 aren’t you well absolutely from the release
Point because he’s a bigger taller guy contact to first yeah we can get used to this doctor garrett crochet when flamingos attack you
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