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We make way for the Hall of Famer, John Smoltz, who was on the call, MLB on Fox, last night.

How you feeling, John?

Early morning back in Atlanta.

I'm doing okay. I'm doing all right what was your expectation last night going into that game starting with Paul schemes well I was excited to see him

live for the first time I've watched him on film. Pittsburgh has probably the best pitcher they've ever had in a draft.

And we all know they've had a lot of pitchers. There's a lot of pitchers in the rest of

Major League Baseball that used to be with the Pittsburgh Pirates, and hopefully they can do

something to keep him and do something to get in the postseason, because I don't say this

very often about people, but he could throw all four scene fastballs in a game.

If, let's just say that he couldn't throw anything but but a fastball and he could win a lot of big

big league baseball games there's not many people there's a handful of people that can do that

jacob de graham is one of them um you know i i said that i wouldn't get caught up in the steven

strasperg hysteria when i did his debut for the mb network and i i got caught up in the Steven Strasbourg hysteria when I did his debut for the MLB network and I

got caught up in it. It was electric. And I think this young man has the same capabilities.

Now, my biggest wish and hope is that he stays healthy. But can you imagine, you know, Pittsburgh hasn't been relevant for a while,

and that's a team you don't want to play in a wildcard scenario

if they were to get in with their young pitching.

But John, how does he avoid not getting hurt?

I mean, your arm is built to only be able to do so many things at so many angles

for such a, you know, a certain amount of time. Well, the one thing I like about him is he does a lot

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