Chase Burns will make his debut in Major League Baseball tonight, neither he nor me can sit

One of my favorite college baseball players in the past 15 years was my debut in Major League Baseball tonight and I want to tell you something about him because if you give him a shot, I think he can be one of your favorite professional baseball players.

His name is Chase Burns. He is not. 2 At last year’s draft, he received the highest prize ($9.25 million) in his class, no. 28 pre-season top 100 prospects. He threw sweat at 100 mph, and his evil sliders twisted, squirted and changed shapes, such as Medusa’s hair, which had a similar effect on the batsmen. In his final game, Burns played seven Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Railriders in seven innings. look.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1xbl4xxuag

Not the most unbearable hipster, but Burns isn’t my type. When I fall in love with a pitcher, it’s usually for something other than flash and strength. I like impeccable commands, a perfectly spotted back door with two holes, or (it’s hard to get some blood out of the biting knuckle), a change that falls from the sky like a tortured dove. I like junk balls, send people quickly, and most importantly, the short and chunky falling players.

If I were to list my 10 favorite college pitchers of the past 20 years (please, please remind me to do this in a particularly slow news week this winter), you’ll find some white-hot gunpowder like Burns. But for every Paul Skenes, there will be a Hudson Randall. For every Carlos Rodón, Thomas Eshelman.

So, I really like the fact that burns, which proves how a lot of He has juice.

Last spring, while visiting a friend near Charlottesville, I peeked into a series between Wake Forest and the University of Virginia. It was supposed to be a great style battle showdown, with multiple potential first-rounders on the one hand and the deepest roster in college baseball on the other. Not in most cases. Both Friday and Sunday ended with two double-digit teams, Virginia beat seven shadows in the previous game to know Wake Ace Ace Josh Hartle.

When Burns occupied the mound Saturday afternoon, many fans expected more. Not so. He touched 100 mph early, and whenever the Cavaliers batsman starts putting beads on the heater, Burns falls into the slider, either a hard, overhead giant, a dive obstacle, or a bit slower tick feet to mix things together.

I think you only know the numbers: Virginia Hit.333/.425/.567 As a team In 2024, there are more than nine games to get a sleeper in the College World Series. Burns allowed only two hits and got one run in seven innings, hitting 13 batsmen along the way. In his first five ACC starts, he hit 12 or more batsmen. This is the second outing of the winning streak. (Burns beat his 48.8% of his opponents in the draft year, defeating Skenes by 3.6 percentage points from the previous year.)

But my lasting memory of that game wasn’t like this three-pointer. That’s how UVA fans around me perform in the game. In very, very rare cases, an athlete will show such an important performance that the opponent’s crowd respects him or her. I’m not saying that the crowd is coming to burn. Instead, Virginia lost 9-3 and everyone around me felt very cheesy about it.

This game starts with family members understanding or caring for their opponents. Then, as the game progressed, strikeouts began to pile up and the crowd was frustrated. “Who does this guy think he is?” and so on. But after a few rounds, everyone in the park realized that they were actually watching something special and that although the result wasn’t what they wanted to see, they were able to appreciate the beauty that was shown in front of them.

rare type Athletes can do this. Starting pitcher, hockey goalkeeper, scorer with the ball as the advantage in basketball games. Maybe some quarterback or football midfielder. The point is that it is not only a glorious flash, but also a continuous lighthouse of light for a long day.

Styleally speaking, Burns is a force, but two other attributes make him interesting to watch. First, he uses energy to generate active eating on the mound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKVK0LFDAQ8

If you like to see pitchers who know how cool they are, that’s your guy. Between the 100 mph fastball, burn footsteps, skip and spin in half of Johnny Cueto. After a big strikeout, he would…I don’t want to use terms like “dance” or “fist” because it looks more like it’s electrocuted.

It is contagious.

This played a role in his delivery, which could be said to be a weakness because it was so high in time. I’ll compare Burns to Skenes again here. Looking at Skynis’s stadium is like watching a bear throw a sled ball. Apparently, he is inspiring, and when he feels particularly lively, he is not going beyond the gloves or spin. But for the most part, Skenes makes his job look easier than before.

By comparison, Burns looks much smaller than the 6-foot-3-foot-210-pound size he listed. He has fluffy and active limb movements that blur the movements in motion. His whirlwind throwing motion was so intense that it caused some of the Boy Scouts to worry that he had long been in the bullpen. But, where Skenes are lazy and Ursine, Burns are rich and resilient. He is a big guy, his explosiveness and fluidity moves.

And what kind of sport it is. After throwing 100 innings for Wake last year, Burns didn’t make his debut until April this year. Over 11 weeks, in 13 spaces, he extended his height to pitch, three minor league levels in the 1980s and recorded 89 strikeouts in 66 innings while keeping his opponent at the .167/.211/.263 hit line.

STATCAST tracks two of these beginnings, the last two being done in Triple-A, but beggars have very little belief. Burns’ average fastball speed (97.8 mph) will be the second highest in the Grand Slam after Skenes. The move on his four-pin was between Hunter Brown and Dylan’s stop. His two stutters (slider and curve) produce a 50% WHF rate in Triple-A.

I don’t know if Burns is fully formed or if he’s ready for the Grand Slam. Just as tall as I was on him, I had serious doubts in both. All I know: In 13 starts, he learned everything that minor league batsmen could teach him. No one there can challenge him.

So it is no longer a profession for the Yankees. Oppose Burns in his first major league start? Rodón has had the decision of someone who has professionally shown in his life in all seasons. I can’t wait.