{"id":4135,"date":"2011-06-20T13:27:07","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T18:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=4135"},"modified":"2011-10-24T13:54:13","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T18:54:13","slug":"2012-mlb-draft-preview-michael-wacha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/4135","title":{"rendered":"2012 MLB Draft Preview: Michael Wacha"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As a student of the Texas A&M Health Science Center, and in celebration of the Aggies making it to Omaha, today I will write up likely 2012 first-rounder Michael Wacha, the ace of the Aggie staff now that John Stilson is injured.\u00a0 Also, a good buddy of mine from class is a neighbor of the Wacha family, and they sound like tremendous people.<\/p>\n

Wacha is a big righty with great mechanics and an easy-higher \u00be arm slot.\u00a0 His delivery is clean and repeatable, and he is on top of every pitch with good downward action that generates a lot of grounders, especially for a fastball\/changeup guy.\u00a0 His fastball, which can reach the mid-90s but typically sits a few mph\u2019s less, is a little on the flat side for a true 60 grading, but the downward action he develops from his delivery allows it to overcome this flatness to an extent.\u00a0 His changeup is a no-doubt 60 today with great fade and a chance to tick up still.\u00a0 His breaking ball is less of a finished product and will require some time, but he is athletic enough and repeats a quality delivery well enough that he should develop it into a solid-average 3rd<\/sup> pitch.\u00a0 What\u2019s more, his slot likely will allow him to generate enough depth with it to get botch sides of the plate out once he learns the feel of it.<\/p>\n

Wacha had dynamite numbers for the Aggies this season with a 2.12 ERA in 18 starts with 118 K\u2019s and only 28 BB\u2019s, beating surefire first-rounder prior to injury Stilson in both regards.\u00a0 The Big XII had some outstanding squads this season, and those numbers should be taken very seriously.\u00a0 We at the Sombrero are way in on Wacha and think he will be a very big riser in the next year possibly challenging to be the first arm off the board out of the Big XII.
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As a student of the Texas A&M Health Science Center, and in celebration of the Aggies making it to Omaha, today I will write up likely 2012 first-rounder Michael Wacha, the ace of the Aggie staff now that John Stilson is injured.\u00a0 Also, a good buddy of mine from class is a neighbor of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2830,7,15,1300,6,9,13,10,14],"tags":[2310,2358,2360,518,2361,2359,2356,2357],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4135"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4135"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4138,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4135\/revisions\/4138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}