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Morgalis is not just a fast worker—he’s also an intelligent one. If the senior has drawn comparisons to Cubs great Greg Maddux in the past, that has less to do with both pitchers’ goofy personas than with their systematic approaches to the game...
...Like Maddux, Morgalis relies less on power and more on guile, treating pitching more like, well, an art. The Lions mustered only a solo home run in the second inning, spending the rest of the day dribbling ground balls and glancing weak pops around the infield—and getting fooled on darting fastballs inside...
...analogies, accrue momentum until he's created an aria, an oration on the fly. He has the assurance of someone who is used to being listened to, who's had more than a cup of coffee in the big leagues. For maybe a decade, Costner was the Greg Maddux of Hollywood stars, quietly outpitching the competition...
...Maddux is one of those guys that throws 84, 86,” Walsh says. “Then all of a sudden—whoom! He comes in with an 88, 89. Mike can do the same, in that he pitches up. He’ll be sitting 85, 87, and then you get that tough guy, and he lets it go and brings a 90 a few times during a ballgame. That’s very unusual to see a kid who can pitch...
Instrumental to staying consistent will be control over his pitches and using all three to keep batters honest. According to Walsh, Morgalis boasts the ability to get ahead of hitters with any pitch and then deploys a very Maddux-esque method of reading batters. “He can see hitters’ tendencies,” Walsh said. “A lot of times catchers pick it up—Mike seems to pick up right away with the guy’s swing, ‘Hey I can bust him inside...