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He was practically untouchable on the mound in his youth. “I remember going to a tournament in high school where it’s the best talent in high school, and you start looking and saying, hey, I’m one of the best here,” he told NPR in 2017. “And then I played on the USA junior team and realizing that, you know, that I was better than some of the guys that were older than me that were going to be drafted that year, and I wasn’t going to be drafted until the following year.”