Daniel Moskos
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Daniel Moskos is an amateur baseball player. A left-handed pitcher[1], Moskos was drafted #4 overall in the 2007 Major League Baseball Draft by the Pittsburgh Pirates.[2]
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[edit] Early life
Daniel Moskos was born on April 28, 1986 and attended Damien High School in La Verne, California .
[edit] Scouting Report
[edit] Pros
He has a fastball that sits at about 94 mph (90 mph was MLB average is 2007), and has been clocked as high as 96. His slider during this time was clocked at 83, and his changeup would be more effective as a starter because as a reliever it would be redundant.
Moskos has a big arm with above-average velocity. His ability to throw, potentially, three pitches (the fastball, slider and changeup), which is a plus as well.
[edit] Draft
Moskos was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates with the 4th overall pick of the 2007 amateur draft and has signed with the Pirates. The Pirates almost decided to go with Matt Wieters, but chose Moskos instead while Wieters ended up with the Baltimore Orioles with the 5th overall pick. Wieters was projected to replace one time Pirate catcher Jason Kendall with that pick, but management went in a different direction with Moskos pitching attributes. Some people say that the Orioles got themselves a future Jason Varitek in Wieters while the Pirates were still regretting on the move from Dave Littlefield's last draft as the Pirates general manager, as Moskos projects as a reliever. While relievers are valuable to a certain extent, high draft choices should not be spent on them as they only pitch roughly 80 innings a year, whereas a MLB team is scheduled to play 1,458. Regardless of how good a reliever is, a player who only contributes to 5.5% of a team's innings cannot have the impact a team needs to get out of a high draft choice.
