It’d be prime source material for a screenplay had Dennis Quaid not already starred in The Rookie. Then again, Hollywood loves its reboots. And the wild tale of 37-year-old lefty Luke Hagerty is even more inconceivable than that of fellow southpaw Jim Morris, whose high-90’s heater took the then-35-year-old from coaching high school baseball to pitching for the Rays in 1999. Seriously, it’s incredible.
That Hagerty will turn 38 on April 1 makes his Sidd Finch-esque tale even more ironically implausible, but this is far from a fabrication. Hagerty can’t throw 168 mph like Finch, but his 96.