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Lupe Rios-Rosario
Starting Pitcher | St Paul Pride
Pitching Rios-Rosario likes to get hitters looking down and away, then ties them up by coming inside with hard stuff, getting a lot of groundball outs. He's a good late inning man, which is when being a pitcher really counts. His fastball gets into the high 80s, but it's the sink that makes the pitch effective. He attacks lefties and righties with similar success.
Defense & Hitting Though he lacks a good pickoff move, he checks the running game with a compact stretch delivery. Rios-Rosario is agile on the mound, though he makes needless errors when his concentration wanders. Rios-Rosario is a surpisingly good hitting pitcher. And I'm not sure you can say this about a pitcher, but Rios-Rosario has some pop in his swing.
-- Emu Nyman, AA/AAA Scout
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