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Good morning, guys.

How are you?

We're not doing as well as Mitchell Parker was on the bump last night.

I mean, what an awesome outing by him.

Eight innings pitch allows just one hit, two walks, fans, four Orioles, batters.

His ERA is at a sparkling 1.39. I mean, were you just

blown away by what he was doing last night on the mound? Yeah, he's been, you know, a very consistent

pitcher force last year and a half since we brought him up and uh you you know he had everything working

last night he was pounding the strike zone and kept the batters off uh off balance and uh you know

kept the barrel kept the ball off the barrel of the bath and that's the secret to his success

what's his background did he play college ball did you guys draft him right out of uh high school

how san jacinto it looks like senior college got you yeah he said no background. Did he play college ball? Did you guys draft him right out of high school?

San Jacinto, it looks like. Junior college. Gotcha. Yeah, he's a New Mexico kid that we drafted out of junior college and San Jacinto in the fifth round, which was that year. Remember, that was the

last round, you know, in that draft because of COVID. So, yeah, we took him in the fifth round, and, you know, development did a great job of them,

Sammy Neron and those guys down in the minor leagues because he was a guy that had a really

good arm, but, you know, scattered his fastball and, you know, didn't pitch with much command

or feel because he was pretty raw off the mound.

So, you know, those guys did a

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