From the Mets organization report in the recent print edition of Baseball America -
Righthander Scott Moviel was ready to follow the path of fellow Ohioan Andrew Brackman, whom the Yankees selected in the first round of the 2007 draft: pitch for North Carolina State, and compete for the Wolfpack basketball team—or at least try to walk on. Then the Mets selected Moviel in the second round, 77th overall, in 2007.
Moviel bypassed college for the minors. Now 20 and using a low-90s fastball, curveball, circle change and two-seam fastball, he went 9-8, 4.43 in 24 starts at low Class A Savannah in his first full professional season. He moved to high Class A St. Lucie for his final start and tossed five scoreless innings. That upped his innings count for the year to 125.
Brackman hosted Moviel during an official visit to N.C. State. That wouldn’t be the last time they had something in common. A week before last year’s draft, the Yankees invited Moviel for a tryout in Tampa. Moviel struck out four of the six batters he faced, but the Yankees instead used the 30th overall pick on Brackman, who underwent Tommy John surgery after signing and is in Hawaii Winter Baseball this year.
Moviel labels himself somewhere near 6-foot-10. He didn’t play basketball his senior year of high school in order to concentrate on baseball, but that didn’t stop him from taking an official visit to Michigan for hoops.
It will be interesting to see, in the years to come, if the Yankees made the correct move to select Brackman over Moviel…even more so because the Mets did take Moviel.
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October 18th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
From purely on a stuff standpoint. Brackman has him easily beat but obviously we need to see how Brackman commands his stuff next season.
They say Brackman’s stuff is better than Joba’s or atleast on par with it.