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Mark McCormick

Here's my first shot at trying to do what John does:

I watched Baylor and Nebraska play at Lincoln, and paid special attention to Mark McCormick, the Baylor starter.  McCormick is 6'2"/190 and is very long and lean (like a taller Oswalt).  He has a nice, easy, smooth overhand delivery, but he gets a lot of velocity out of his motion.  He threw 5 pitches that I saw: 4-seam, 2-seam, curve, slider, and changeup.  His best pitch was his curve, which he threw for strikes all day.  I didn't have a radar gun, but I'm guessing his 4-seam was up in the mid-90's.  I didn't see any 100-mph type stuff that I heard he threw on the Cape this summer.  However, his 2-seam also has great movement, and another fan who has watched him a few more times told me he has seen his changeup be great, but he only threw about 4 today by my count (but I did see him working on it in the bullpen before the game).  He had some problems locating the fastball, but was helped out by (in my opinion) a pretty generous umpire behind the plate.  He had a pretty high pitch count, throwing 126 pitches through 6 2/3 innings, and in the 7th he was visibly fatigued.
If I was an early-drafting team this spring, I would have no reservations about drafting his in the first 10-15 picks.  He struggles a bit with control at times, but he has a very "live" arm and three excellent pitches (4-seam, 2-seam, curve).

Let me know what you think of this report, please.  I have some pictures if anybody would like me to e-mail them to you or if John maybe wants them posted we could do that.

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