(Amature) Scouting Mat Latos

As I walk to my seats in the Stars and Stripes Club (thanks Jay), I hear the announcer transport me to my childhood.  Starting in centerfield for the San Diego Padres… Tony Gwynn! (Ok, fine, my early childhood before Tony Gwynn was relegated to RF).  As I realize that this isn’t Field of Dreams and I’m not Moonlight Graham, I snap back in the game at hand. 

Down the road the Washington Nationals will sign the most heralded pitching prospect in the last 25 years, and yes they will sign him.  Tonight, the Padres No. 1 prospect was on the mound, 6’5” Mat Latos.  After his recovery from from an oblique injury that limited him to 56 innings he returned to the Padres farm system to post a 5-1 re...

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