When the US baseball team faced Cuba in the Olympics the other day, they had an amazing pitcher on the mound. Stephen Strasburg figures to be drafted first overall in next year's draft and has some devastating stuff to validate that position. Apparently he can throw 101 mph as his second best pitch. Incredible. Here's an excerpt from Thomas Boswell's Washington Post article on Strasburg:
"...At the end of a long season when Strasburg has pitched twice as many innings as ever before and is working on fumes, he still challenged the heart of Cuba's order with a 93- to 97-mph fastball and a curveball that really is as knee buckling as advertised."

