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College  | Story | 4/30/2016

Stallings’ slam leads to big win

Matt Czechanski
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Georgia Tech 9, No. 13 Coastal Carolina 1

In a late season, out-of-conference game, Coastal Carolina took on Georgia Tech in Atlanta and started draft hopeful, Alex Cunningham.

Cunningham does not have elite size with a 6-foot, 210-pound frame with good strength in his lower half. He uses a drop-and-drive delivery with a short, compact arm action and arm circle. He’s very slow towards the plate and has some effort at release. Cunningham replicated his modest lower half drive well throughout the game. His entire windup comes off a bit stiff as he cuts off his extension and lands closed, spinning off towards first base.




He throws from a three-quarters arm slot and showed good, present arm speed on the mound. His fastball worked consistently 91-93 mph with subtle arm-side life and he did well to maintain that velocity from the stretch. However, he had issues with command. Cunningham struggled keeping the ball low in the zone and found it often getting barreled all over the field. When he was keeping it low, he consistently lost his release point and ended up having it nearly bounce.

He featured a pair of breaking ball offerings, a slider with looser rotation and sweeping action at 80 mph that he quickly scrapped in favor of his curveball. The curveball showed more consistent shape at 75-76 mph. Cunningham showed some feel for the offering with solid 11-to-5 bend, but neither could help him put away opposing hitters. He went very deep into several counts and allowed a veteran Georgia Tech lineup to work a handful of walks.

Georgia Tech draft-eligible sophomore outfielder Kel Johnson continued his torrid stretch at the plate with a pair of doubles. One was laced down the right field line while the other was hit to the left-center field gap. No one has doubted Johnson’s power potential, but he did well facing good velocity as he put three very hard hit balls in play on the evening on fastballs all over 90 mph. Johnson also looked slightly more comfortable in the field than he has in past games. He made three putouts on the evening with relative ease and got decent jumps on balls that he had to track towards the foul line.

The star of the evening was Georgia Tech Junior righthander, Brandon Gold. Gold stands at 6-foot-3, 203-pounds with an athletic frame that could handle additional strength at the next level. Gold starts with a slight perch and then works into his windup with a modest leg lift. He showed good arm speed and a longer arm action with a slight stab at the end of his arm circle. He rotates his upper half coming towards the plate showing his back to the hitter. He finishes with a slight fall off towards first base, but was athletic and balanced on the mound.

His arm action was super repeatable Friday night as he landed online and got to both sides of the plate with his fastball with ease. Gold’s fastball worked 87-89 mph on the night and hit 92 mph in the first inning, but hovered around 90 for most of the start. The pitch generates good arm-side life, but he threw it for strikes the entire evening. He did really well to generate weaker contact for his fielder on lots of shallow pop ups and groundballs, keeping hitters off balance.

He showed a pair of secondary offerings last night as well. The first a slurvy offering that worked at 79 mph, but he had trouble getting the pitch over for strikes. He didn’t have a ton of feel for the pitch last night, but it did not hold him back. He started throwing an 80 mph changeup significantly more often with good sink that hitters struggled to pick up. He liked using the pitch when he got ahead in the count, but also to setup his fastball for a strikeout. All told he collected five strikeouts to a pair of walks over eight very strong innings.

Talented freshman, Brandt Stallings had a big day for the Jackets at the plate as well. He knocked in four runs on the night including a mammoth grand slam home run in the bottom of the fifth inning. He waited back on a 79 mph slider and cleared his hips with good explosiveness through the zone. Stallings, who won the home run challenge at the 2014 PG All-American Classic, stands at 6-foot-4, 217-pounds with super long limbs and raw strength. He utilizes a power approach at the plate and showed good pitch recognition as he spit on a pair of low and out-of-the-zone sliders on pitches beforehand. He generates good extension and showed impressive bat speed.

Coastal Carolina’s most impressive player on the day was junior shortstop Michael Paez. Paez, who manned the two-hole spot in the Chanticleers’ lineup and put on impressive display during batting practice and in the game. Paez only stands at 5-foot-6, 175 pounds, but his tools stand out at the plate. He starts from an upright stance with a narrow base and uses a simple hand load and weight shift to the ball. He has very impressive bat speed and swings with intent with a line drive plane through the zone. He generates good extension, despite his lack of size and very sneaky raw power. It’s easy to project him for a lot of doubles in pro ball with possibly double digit home runs as well. He can get to the inside pitch as well, with explosive hands and the aforementioned bat speed to turn on them with authority.

Paez does not have blazing speed, as he was clocked with a 4.50 time on a turn to second and a much slower time on a hard hit groundball. He sees an impressive number of pitches in each plate appearance with good knowledge of the zone and the ability to recognize and lay off of spin. In the field, he likely has an arm for second base, but he made several solid plays to each side of him at short. He gets a good first step with good instincts and showed off a quick transfer, all of which helped make up for the lack of impact straight-line speed. He collected a single in his first trip to the plate on Friday as well as a walk.

Coastal Carolina’s final pitcher tossed the last 2 2/3 innings on the mound with relative ease. Freshman righthander Jason Bilous came in to stop the bleeding with an impressive bullpen outing. He stands at 6-foot-2, 180-pounds with lots of remaining physical projection in his frame. He showed an exceptionally quick arm with a long, loose arm action and upbeat delivery. He landed online with good balance and athleticism and moderate effort.

Bilous’ fastball worked 94-96 mph in his outing with good arm-side life and heavy action to it. He generated lots of good angle towards the plate with his long limbs and extension. Bilous also mixed in a sharp slider at 87 mph with good downward tilt and 11-to-5 shape. The pitch was late breaking and was a very good complement to his fastball. Bilous threw 23 of his 32 pitches for strikes and did well to get to both sides of the plate. He’s definitely one to watch in the coming years as he’ll likely move into their rotation for the 2017 season.
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