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Well Dunn is better than well said: Examining Justin Dunn, the Mariners’ new pitching prospect

Taken out of Boston College by the Mets in the first round of the 2016 draft, Justin Dunn is a New York native who may not be entirely thrilled to have been traded across the country. (Sorry, Justin, but you know what they say: west coast, best coast.) Dunn first attracted notice as a preteen playing in a showcase at the Boys and Girls Club of his native Long Island, and was recruited to The Gunnery in Connecticut, which is not, as it sounds, a dystopian futuristic child-soldier training facility, but instead an impossibly expensive (62K a year!