This morning’s top news MLB Pipeline experts look at each team’s top prospect who attended college, from the Orioles’ Adley Rutschman to the Tigers’ Spencer Torkelson. On this date 78 years ago, Cincinnati signed high schooler Joe Nuxhall, setting up his debut as the youngest player in AL/NL history a few months later. They called him “Moose,” and for one week in June 1991, he stomped all over the American League. Hall of Famer Joe Gordon leads the list, which also includes Ila Borders, the first woman to pitch in a men’s college baseball game. Twenty-three years ago, the Yankees acquired Roger Clemens from the Blue Jays. It’s just one of four times a pitcher was traded following a Cy Young season. While Satchel Paige got all the recognition as the best pitcher in the Negro Leagues, teammates and opponents say Leon Day was just as good. Today, it’s Cal vs. Houston at 3 p.m. ET and TCU vs. San Diego State at 7 p.m. ET. Then tomorrow, it’s Jackson State vs. Southern University at 2 p.m. ET and Florida A&M vs. Alabama State at 7 p.m. ET.
Today’s Trivia Question Who was the last pitcher to win the Cy Young Award in a season when he also won the World Series?
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