BRADENTON, Fla. – What started as an exciting and much anticipated debut for last year's No. 1 overall pick quickly turned to into a flurry of scouts heading for the exits after just four batters stepped to the plate. Brady Aiken took the mound for IMG Academy's post-graduate team in Bradenton, Fla. on Thursday, but lasted only 14 pitches before calling for his coach and trainer to come check things out. With about 100 scouts and a handful of scouting directors in attendance, the speculation mill quickly started running once he was pulled from the game.

Before all the drama began, Aiken was sitting 89-91 with his fastball which displayed some nice downward plane while topping out at 92. From the onset you could see the command wasn't there, but after a long layoff, this was not surprising.

The first batter Aiken faced worked a full count before hammering a mistake fastball out over the plate into the left-center field gap. Aiken would go on to face three more batters, striking out one, while mixing things up with his heat and hammer curve. Reports last year had the breaking ball coming across in the mid-70s range, but in this outing the velocity was in the 68-72 range with one spiking at 76 mph. It still had nice shape, but didn't seem to be as dynamic as it has been known to be.

His latch pitch was slow breaking ball that missed it's spot well inside, and then, just like that, it was over.

The 6-foot-4 Aiken walked back to the mound and began to stretch and shake his arms before looking up into his dugout and starting the communication with his bench. A few almost awkward seconds pass by before Aiken's catcher headed to the mound and was immediately joined by the IMG coach and trainer. After a pretty lengthy discussion, and a couple of test pitches, the decision was made to pull him and the scout section emptied in a flash.

Leaving the field with glove on his head and head down has already stirred up plenty of speculation, but until there is official word on what exactly was bothering him today, we can only hope that is nothing serious and the talented lefty will be back missing bats as soon as possible.