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I don't know if I totally agree with you on that, East TN and West TN each have great players, the A and AA state champs this year both came from West TN, and East TN was well represented at the Spring Fling. But to answer your question, the best players I've seen in Middle TN coming back next year are:

Bobby Bratton, SS/P, Columbia Central, he is a tremendous defensive shortstop, a great hitter, and also a good pitcher with good velocity.

David Price, LHP, Blackman High School, well let's just say he is a beast, upper 80s on the gun, sometimes hitting 90+.

Jeffrey Lykins, SS/P, Marshall County, a good shortstop, a good hitter, and a great pitcher with awesome breaking stuff and pretty good velocity on the fastball, I've heard 90, but I don't believe it, I'd say 85-86, but still a tremendous pitcher.

Ahmir Watkins, OF, Blackman High School, tremendous speed, covers a lot of ground in the OF, makes things happen at the plate and on the bases.

Plenty more players, not taking anything away from players I didn't mention, and definitely not taking things away from East and West, the question was just about Middle.

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Posted by buford:

i believe that most of the better players come from middle tennessee that i have seen...what are some of the better players you have seen and what do they bring to the table? :rolleyes:

 

 

What about the Vincent kid at Manchester. For a young kid he throws the ball real well. He would be worth seeing by the time he is a Sr.

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The vast majority of people on here have no earthly idea how fast a 90 mph fastball is. I hear people all the time say that someone throws 86-88 mph and I just want to laugh. Some people I know try to tell me that Derek Clifton has been clocked at 92-93, and I know they have no idea what they are talking about. Clifton throws hard, but 92 is quite a stretch. Lykins is a tremendous pitcher who throws harder than 99% of pitchers in the state, but I agree with SLKC51, it's probably about 86 mph. I wish him the best of luck this year in high school. And yes, the curveball is just plain nasty.

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Need to watch Kyle Smith from Riverdale, Stephen Shao from Mt. Juliet, David Price from Blackman,

Andy Giffen from Smyrna, Davenport of Beech, Bratton of Columbia, and Long of Shelbyville.

Some of these are pure throwers and other have developed into nice high school pitchers with

a chance to go to the next level. Who else?

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