With
the 148th pick (5th round) in the 2019 draft, the New York Mets
picked Northwester State RHSP, Nathan Jones.
2019
stats: 14-starts, 7-4, 2.78, 1.05,
81-IP, 80-K
6-1 200 lbs
Senior
NSU Demons - 2018
Season:
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Made 16 starts, tying for the team lead.
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led the Demons in innings pitched (103.0), which tied for the ninth-most in
school single-season history.
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led Northwestern State pitchers with three pickoffs.
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had a run of five straight quality starts from March 29-April 29, lowering his
ERA by more than half a run in that span.
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collected his fourth win of the year with seven innings of one-run ball in a
6-1 win against Abilene Christian on May 13, a win that clinched Northwestern
State’s Southland Conference Tournament berth.
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tossed a complete game, striking out eight and allowing two earned runs in a
3-2 loss to Houston Baptist on April 29.
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fanned a career-high 10 – Northwestern State’s first double-digit strikeout
game since 2012 – and tossed a complete game in a 5-2 April 14 win against Southeastern
Louisiana.
•
tossed 7 2-3 innings of one-run ball in a Feb. 23 no-decision against Penn – a
game the Demons won 2-1 in 13 innings.
•
made his second straight Opening Day start, tossing five innings of one-run
ball to beat Binghamton, 3-2, on Feb. 16.
Carlos
Collazo - @CarlosACollazo - Don't
have Nathan Jones, but hearing he is a good performer, 90-93 mph FB and touches
94 with a fringe-average curve. 2.78 ERA with 80 strikeouts in 81 innings this
spring in the Southland Conference.
2 comments:
Given the first 4 picks, Nathan Jones looks like a decent pick.
My warning is this.
This current long run on college seniors early on means they are trying to gather the money that will be needed to sign the high school kids.
Great if it works, but, if it doesn't, the draft will be a bust.
Yesterday they began drafting people who wouldn't have been picked until after the 5th round (example: USF Genord)
Sign the kids and you have a good draft.
Don't sign them and you have a waste of a year.
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