In covering the Major League Baseball playoffs, television commentators have been showing off a photo from the Harvard-Westlake days of pitchers Lucas Giolito, Max Fried and Jack Flaherty when they were teammates. Now the Wolverines are preparing the next generation of potential pitching standouts.
Freshmen Bryce Rainer and Duncan Marsten will make their varsity debuts this spring for the Wolverines, and the early scouting reports are good. Rainer has committed to UCLA. Marsten has committed to Stanford. Both are 6-foot-3 right-handed pitchers who also hit.
Rainer has a fastball that goes between 87 and 90 mph, according to coach Jared Halpert.