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‘It’s unbelievable how far the ball goes’; Joe Wainhouse’s power wows UW baseball coaches

Wainhouse came to UW as a two-way player but has pitched just 12/3 innings this season because he is so valuable as a hitter. “Joe’s hit the ball farther than any human being I’ve ever seen on a college baseball field, including Mark McGwire,” coach Lindsay Meggs says.

Washington’s Joe Wainhouse has turned into one of the elite sluggers in the Pac-12, a 6-foot-6, 255-pound, left-handed-hitting behemoth who is known to send balls soaring into Lake Washington.

But here’s the thing — as UW approaches the end of its regular season with a showdown series against Stanford beginning Thursday at Husky Stadium, and as the MLB draft nears next month, no one is still quite sure what Wainhouse is.