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Hoping Strasburg doesn't reach 105 on radar gun

By Rob Neyer

Friday, March 27, 2009

Via Lee Jenkins, the legend grows … "I know everybody now is asking, 'How did you miss on Stephen Strasburg in high school?' " says a major league scout. "But we didn't miss. He was soft in every way." Strasburg would bark at infielders after errors and at umpires after bad calls. If he gave up a couple of hits and the opposing dugout started to chirp, he had a tendency to overthrow his fastball, which would then flatten out and get smacked even harder. "I told scouts not to draft me," St ...

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