FAYETTEVILLE — Griffin Roberts feels like he owes a lot of his success to Matt Hobbs.
Roberts, a former walk-on pitcher at Wake Forest, was selected in the first round of the MLB Draft earlier this year, 43rd overall by the St. Louis Cardinals. He is the highest-drafted pitcher Hobbs has had in 12 seasons as a Division-I pitching coach and possibly the best example of Hobbs' coaching philosophies paying dividends.
“He just kind of showed me the light at the end of the tunnel,” Roberts said. “Right when I got here freshman year I couldn’t throw strikes and I didn’t throw hard.