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South Side Sox Top Prospect No. 69: Tommy Sommer

Left-Handed Starting Pitcher
6´4´´
220 pounds
Age: 23
SSS rank among all left-handed starting pitchers in the system: 4

Athletic ability doesn’t often fall too far from the tree.

In Tommy Sommer’s case, his father Juergen was a goalkeeper for the Indiana University and part of their 1988 national championship team; he played for more than a decade in the professional ranks, ultimately concluding his career in 2004 with the New England Revolution. His mother was no slouch athletically, either, as she was a star high school softball player.

Sommer, a native of Carmel, Ind.