By JOEL COLEMAN
sports@starkvilledailynews.com
At first glance, Mississippi State pitcher Dakota Hudson doesn’t look all that different this year than he has in the past. The junior hurler still boasts his impressive frame at 6-foot-5 and 215 pounds. He’s still humming fastballs in the mid-90s and flashing his Craig Kimbrel-like pose on the mound, something Hudson says he adopted after teammate Gavin Collins suggested the move last year as a technique to help boost the right-handed flame-thrower’s confidence.
Yet for all that’s stayed the same, the results this year are drastically different than anything that anyone in Starkville has seen from Hudson in the years prior.