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I'll take 30 of those 11-K, 1-BB, 0-R "just OK" starts per year, please!
Does that mean he didn't have his best stuff, but still dominated? In which case, that's a good thing.
Or does it mean that a better pitcher would have dominated even more? How much more dominant do you want, oh ye Scouts in Attendance?
Anyway, I listened to the end of the game on the webcast and the UCLA announcers (not scouts, but they have seen Cole pitch a lot) said they'd never seen Cole so efficient and that he was almost Maddux-like in his efficiency (faced 29 batters, threw 104 pitches). They did note that he was helped by some excellent defense, but it couldn't have mattered that much, considering USF hardly had any baserunners. FWIW