Two weeks ago, Nathan Patterson threw a 96 mph pitch at a Rockies game. On Thursday, he signed a contract with the Oakland Athletics.
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From MLB.com:
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Amazingly, Patterson told MLB.com that he played competitive baseball until his senior year of high school, but said he “didn’t really have a good arm then.”
Inspired by that outing, he began training a couple of months later, but was then hit by a car and had surgery on his non-throwing wrist in December (hence the cast mentioned above).
He began talking with the A’s in February 2019, kept training, throwing and joined a men’s league to stay fresh. Then that trip to the Rockies game came about and, “a few days later the A’s gave me a call.”
Never give up on your dreams.
