Still optically reeling from a 6-hour, 14 inning marathon, yet still unable to provide an expert eyeball report on pitcher Jake Smolinski — and for that we are thankful — the Eyeball Scout has recently seen a couple of season debuts (one a career debut). So without further adieu, here are some notes from the last series...
Lou Trivino
There are many aspects to a pitcher, from raw stuff to command of said arsenal to how they handle certain situations. Amongst the more challenges situations to handle would be to follow your major league debut with an outing the next day, and have that appearance unexpectedly require you to go 3 IP in a tie game that has already been going for 4-5 hours and 22 runs.