Vinny Messana (VM): We cover Long Island usually so our audience may not be familiar with you. But I thought you were a perfect guest for this because of your story and pedigree. You got drafted out of Pace last year in the 25th round by the Milwaukee Brewers. Two-time All American. Most impressively, from a scouting perspective, you had a 63:5 K to BB ratio. That’s pretty mind boggling. How did you refine your command to the point where it was basically nation-leading? Dan Wirchansky (DW): My sophomore year, I had a 70:35 K to BB ratio which was pretty bad. That summer, I went to the NECBL and basically worked on throwing a lot more strikes and getting ahead of guys and not trying to be perfect with everything. I started getting between with my command. VM: You pitched three seasons at Pa...
It’s not often that an impact player is announcing his college commitment after his senior year concludes. It took an extremely unusual circumstance, but North Babylon 1B/RHP Brian Primm announced that he will be attending Pace University in the fall. Primm was originally committed to LIU Post, but after the merger with LIU Brooklyn, he decided–like several other 2019 grads including E.J. Exposito, Peter Schimmel, Michael Storms, Stevie Proko–to de-commit. Exposito will be attending NYIT, Schimmel will be going to St. Thomas Aquinas and Storms/Proko will go to Adelphi. Primm had the best season out of all of them and is a finalist for the coveted Carl Yastrzemski Award next week. He went 5-0 with a 0.73 ERA on the mound over 38.1 IP. He also batted .431 with a 1.156 OPS a...