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College  | Story  | 3/8/2020

College Notebook: March 8

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Photo: Charles King (Eichel Davis, TCU Athletics)

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Players covered: Nick Nastrini (UCLA), Sean Mullen (UCLA), Charles King (TCU), John Michael Beller (USC), Jake Eder (Vanderbilt), Tyler Brown (Vanderbilt)



Nick Nastrini, RHP, UCLA

Coming off a strong summer in the Cape Cod League where he was ranked No. 48 on the league’s top prospect list by Perfect Game, Nastrini had high expectations heading into his sophomore season with the Bruins. So far this season, Nastrini has done well as the Saturday starter for UCLA as he was 2-0 heading into the Top-25 matchup with TCU. Unfortunately, Nastrini lived over the heart of the plate for a better part of his outing with his arsenal and was knocked out of the ball game in the second inning having given up four runs off five hits through those two innings.

Nastrini has a shorter arm action from a high three-quarters to over-the-top slot and works straight up and down with his mid-leg lift. On occasion, he’ll open his front side early and tug his higher arm slot along with him which forces him to miss away from right-handed bats. His fastball sat 89-91 throughout his two innings and it’s mostly what got him into trouble. He showcased two different looking breaking balls. The first is a high 11-to-5 shaped curveball with plenty of vertical depth to the plate, and it sits around 77-78 mph. The second is a smaller overall shaped high 10-to-4 slider that almost has a cutter-like feel but it comes in around 82 mph. The slider was working when located to back foot of lefties, but he tended to miss away with the pitch when working on right-handed hitters. Nastrini’s off-speed looked very good away to left-handed hitters as he turns the pitch over at the window. The actions on his changeup are strong enough to throw to both lefties and righties but he mostly saves it for left-handed bats.

So far this season, Nastrini’s longest outing was his five-inning season opener against UC Riverside. It will be interesting to see if Coach Savage continues to keep Nastrini on a tight leash while relying on his bullpen every Saturday, or whether he’ll start to slowly stretch Nastrini out into longer overall outings.


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