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...Crockett, Harvard’s captain and best starting pitcher, walked across the chalk lines at O’Donnell Field last May having just hurled a no-hitter. In his last outing of the season—and possibly his college career—Crockett held Ivy rival Dartmouth hitless over nine innings with one devastating curveball after another. It was the performance of a lifetime for the Harvard righthander, and it came just days before the Major League Baseball draft...
Crockett spent the summer pitching for the Wareham Gatemen of the Cape Cod League, all the while continuing his negotiations with the Red Sox. The defending Cape League Pitcher of the Year, Crockett led the league with 74 strikeouts and threw three complete games with a 1.67 ERA. Along the way, he impressed plenty of local baseball observers...
...He’s a tremendous pitcher,” said sports writer Ed Collins of the South Shore Standard Times, who has covered Crockett and the Wareham Gatemen for two years. “He’s a very smart player. He always keeps [the Gatemen] in the game...
...against Dartmouth, Crockett had already provided plenty for scouts to drool over. He features three quality pitches—the sharp curve, a solid changeup and a low-90’s fastball. In the summer of 2000, prior to developing his elbow injury, Crocket was named the Co-Pitcher of Year after posting a 5-1 record and 2.95 ERA for the Gatemen. Most scouts knew him even before that—Crockett enjoyed a fine high school career at Masconoment Regional High School...
...pairing seemed perfect—a young local pitcher drafted by a team starved for good pitching prospects. But the negotiations did not go perfectly...