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With the New York Yankees 10th round selection in
the 2018 MLB First Year Players Draft and 307th pick overall the organization
drafted Josh Maciejewski out of UNC Charlotte. Yes, you guessed it… Maciejewski
is a college starting pitcher, this time from the left-side though, with a huge
frame standing 6’3” and weighing in at 209 lbs. Let’s meet him. This is Meet a
Prospect: The Josh Maciejewski Edition.
Maciejewski is another college senior the Yankees drafted,
this time out of the University of North Carolina – Charlotte. Maciejewski has
a high 80 MPH fastball that he mixes with a changeup and a developing slider, a
pitch the Yankees organization has seemingly fallen in love with over the
years. Maciejewski used that repertoire to post a 9-2 record this season with a
2.25 ERA en route to earning First team All-Conference USA honors.
Here is what the UNC-Charlotte athletics page had to say
about Maciejewski:
“SET CHARLOTTE ALL-TIME RECORD FOR MOST STARTS IN A CAREER
WITH 55 AFTER HIS COMPLETE-GAME, THREE-HIT SHUTOUT OF UAB IN THE CONFERENCE USA
TOURNAMENT ON MAY 24TH … MADE ALL 15 STARTS ON THE WEEKEND IN 2018 GOING 9-2 WITH
A 2.25 ERA … THREW 104 INNINGS WITH 104 STRIKEOUTS ALLOWING JUST 31 RUNS, 26
EARNED AVERAGING NINE STRIKEOUTS PER GAME AND A 4/1 STRIKEOUT-TO-WALK
RATIO… PUT UP CAREER BEST NUMBERS IN ALL MAJOR CATEGORIES DURING HIS
FINAL SEASON INCLUDING WINS, ERA, INNINGS PITCHES, RUNS/EARNED RUNS, STRIKEOUTS
AND OPPONENTS BATTING AVERAGE (.215) … IN ADDITION TO EARNING THE TOP SPOT
ALL-TIME FOR CAREER STARTS, THE LEFT-HANDER FINISHED FIFTH WITH 330.1 CAREER
INNINGS PITCHED, SIXTH ALL-TIME WITH 264 STRIKEOUTS AND TIED FOR SIXTH WITH 21
CAREER WINS.”
The Yankees should have no problem churning out, at worst, a
healthy crop of good relief pitchers in the near future from the farm system.
At best, though, the organization has stockpiled a ton of pitchers that could
potentially move quick through the farm system. Nice work by them, kudos.
Maciejewski has already signed with the club so a warm
welcome to the organization to him, and an even warmer welcome to the Yankees
family. You can follow him on twitter by following @J_Maciejewski22.
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