Digging In: Jupiter Day 3 Notebook
October 22, 2017
Prep Baseball Report’s national scouting staff is in Jupiter, FL, for the 2017 World Wood Bat Championship. Executive Director Sean Duncan, National Crosschecker Shooter Hunt and National Supervisor Nathan Rode are posting separate notebooks with information on what they saw each day. To see all content from Jupiter, click here.
JUPITER, FL - After losing nearly an entire day due to rain, there was  plenty of baseball to be consumed Saturday at the WWBA World  Championships. The action came fast and furiously, with big performances  at nearly every field. 
Some highlights from one bleary-eyed scout:
East Coast Sox Continues to Roll
The  Sox improved to 3-0 after two victories Saturday. In its 6-1 win over  Team Mizuno Puerto Rico, the Sox rolled out four arms that were 89-plus,  highlighted by one of the day’s bigger revelations, 2019 RHP Farmer Abendroth (Warren Central HS, MS). Although he’s committed to LSU, the lanky  6-foot-5, 170-pound right-hander isn’t a well-known name around the  national scouting community.
Abendroth  likely changed that with his two-inning relief stint. Extremely long  and rail-thin, Abendroth worked his fastball at 90-93 mph, sitting  mostly at 90-91, with angle and occasional arm-side life. While he set  hitters up with his lively fastball, he put them away with a hard 12/6  curveball that ranged between 78-80 mph. Abendroth recorded four of his  six outs via strikeout, all of which came off his breaking ball ...
