“Usually when you see an athlete like that, you’re going to end up with a pretty good pitcher,” said Hobbs, Arkansas’ third-year pitching coach, recently of Peyton Pallette.
Athlete almost seems too generic of a term to describe hard-throwing freshman Jaxon Wiggins. The 6-6 right hander has lit up the radar gun in Arkansas’ past two games with a 95-98 mph fastball and an 84-87 mph changeup.
Wiggins is one of the best athletes on the team. He has personal bests of 40 inches in the vertical jump and 10 feet, 8 inches in the broad jump, according to the Razorbacks’ strength coach, Blaine Kinsley.