Pitcher discovered on social media lands chance with A's.
Nathan Patterson never even made the varsity baseball team as a middle infielder during high school back home in Kansas.
In Colorado for a family reunion to celebrate his grandmother's 80th birthday last month, Patterson wound up at a Rockies game with time on his hands because of a rain delay. He and his brother tried out the speed-pitch challenge cage at Coors Field just for fun. His brother, Christian, hit 83 mph and the booth operator congratulated him on the top speed of the day.The radar gun read: 90-94-94-96-95-96.His brother's video of the throws quickly took off on social media.
"It's become more and more real now," the 23-year-old Patterson said."There's kind of a misconception that I threw a ball ... almost a month ago and got signed, a misconception that there was no work or sacrifice that went into it when in reality there was a ton of work and a lot of sacrifices over the last year that got me to being where I am today."
When Patterson realized about a year later in June 2015 that"sun up to sun down" lawn care and landscaping wasn't his life path and he wanted to"go experience the world," he used Google to determine where he would go next. Austin, Texas, came up as No. 1 when he searched for"coolest places to live when you're young and single," so he told his friends and family that's where he would move.
"It was a very, very sad day, like all this work over the last two months was for nothing," he recalled.
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