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With Mann as a home run threat in the lineup behind junior powerhouse Trey Hendricks, opponents are unable to pitch around the switch-hitting first baseman...
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...good start. He’s stolen eight bases on eight attempts so far. But he’s also hitting .347 through 19 games, and could play right field—as he has so far—or the middle infield, and he may pitch down the road. The shirt says lawn mower, but the game screams all-terrain vehicle...
...that’s a magic number,” Walsh says. “He’s got a pretty nasty slider to go with it, and he developed his change as the season went along last year. He’s a three-pitch pitcher coming out of the bullpen...
...hard to balance that out, to be aggressive but then not get emotional when a guy hits a ball in the gap,” he says. “But you have to be under control at all times, you can’t let one pitch affect you the next pitch. You’ve just got to realize that you’re one pitch away, one out away, from getting out of that jam, and that’s why they make it four bases that you have to touch to score...