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JUCO trio propelling Oregon State baseball into postseason - The Bulletin

The Bulletin·Isaac Streeter·5 months ago
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Ethan Kleinschmit, Wyatt Queen and Albert Roblez ascend from junior college ranks to key pieces of Beavers’ top-flight pitching staff

If there is a Frankenstein to be found in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, he’s calling pitches in the Oregon State baseball dugout.

Beavers pitching coach Rich Dorman is Victor Frankenstein — the doctor, not the green-skinned monster with bolts jutting from his neck. And, like any good mad scientist (or pitching coach), Dorman has a laboratory of his own.

The Beavers’ pitching lab just across the street from Goss Stadium and up a set of wooden stairs, is as utilitarian and no-nonsense as its inhabitants.

A pair of practice mounds occupy one side, with Dorman’s desk on the other. A massive white board hangs in the center, ranking every trackable data point — a fastball’s velocity, a changeup’s vertical drop, a slider’s rotations-per-minute and more — and weight-room minutiae that the Beavers’ pitching staff achieves.…

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