An Oakland Athletics rookie is giving fans a reason to cheer in a season that has been filled with jeers.
Closer Mason Miller is lighting up radar guns and locking down games in a way that is drawing eyes to an A's team crawling up the standings. 'It's been a coming out party of sorts,' Miller said. Former A's pitcher and current team broadcaster Dallas Braden put it in a different way. 'I call him 'Mason AKA Moses,' because when he walks into a room the sea parts,' he said.
That helped raised his velocity on his pitches. His main focus at the end of college was landing a job after graduation. Miller was ready to accept a budgeting efficiency job with a health network in Pittsburgh, but then he received an extra year of eligibility because of the COVID-19 pandemic. He transferred to Division I Gardner-Webb. He pitched well enough for the A's to draft him in the third round of the 2021 draft.
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