LOS ANGELES -- UCLA coach Jim Mora is hopeful quarterback Josh Rosen will be
able to play at Washington State on Saturday.
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status, there are fundamental issues for the Bruins offense to address.Rosen was
twice knocked out of the 23-20 loss at Arizona State. A right leg injury left
the sophomore limping in the first half, and a hard landing on his throwing
shoulder in the fourth quarter sidelined him for the rest of the game.Mora would
not go into specifics regarding either and instead took the approach used by NHL
coaches, referring to Rosens ailments as upper body and lower body injuries.
Still, Mora expects Rosen to exhaust every option to be able to play against the
Cougars.He doesnt want to let anyone down and loves to compete, Mora said. I was
impressed by the way he came back in and fought through some obvious pain and
delivered a pretty good performance. I think he showed some grit, some toughness
and I think his teammates appreciated that.Rosen threw for 400 yards and two
touchdowns with one interception against the Sun Devils. Former walk-on Mike
Fafaul was 3 of 11 passing for 44 yards and two interceptions in relief of
Rosen, neither quarterback getting any help from the beleaguered UCLA run game
as Nate Starks and Soso Jamabo rushed for just 40 yards on 17 carries.Despite
spending the offseason installing a run-oriented offense intended to become more
physical, UCLA is averaging 2.95 yards per carry, ahead of only Miami (Ohio) and
Texas State among the 128 FBS teams.UCLA has 595 yards rushing this season.
Washington State, a pass-heavy Air Raid offense that lines up with four
receivers most of the time, has run for 381 yards in its last two games,
outrushing Oregon and Stanford by 106 yards combined in those wins.Right now
were just sub-standard in a lot of ways in the run game, Mora said. Thats not a
statement that is going to astound people. We all know that.Those meager rushing
statistics are exacerbated by the 15 sacks allowed, one more than UCLA
surrendered all of last season.Mora wont assign the blame for the offenses
struggles to any one player or position group. Instead, Mora pointed to a series
of individual breakdowns that can cause a negative play, be it a running back
not picking up the right defender in pass protection or misreading a block
carrying the ball, a wide receiver not running the right route, or the
quarterback holding the ball too long. And when the rush offense isnt effective,
opponents can unleash the pass rush on Rosen or Fafaul.Its a fine line between
being 6-0 and 3-3, and we have to find a way to get over that line and make
those plays when they need to be made, Mora said.UCLA has been in this position
before, starting 1-2 in Pac-12 play in four of Moras five seasons. The
difference this time is the offenses confidence is a little shaken, Mora
admitted, making the balance between making corrections and maintaining belief
in the new system difficult.You have got to find a way to be critical and
demanding and honest with yourself. At the same time you have got to find a way
to build confidence back and thats tricky, Mora said. You got to have some
success. You have got to try to create some success.Game notes Mora expects
right tackle Kolton Miller (left leg) to return this season. Miller did not play
against Arizona State and is still in a cast after suffering the injury against
Arizona. Its just a matter of when, Mora said. Its a pain thing. If it was
season-ending Id tell you.
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. -- Former San Diego Chargers safety Paul Oliver was found dead at his
Atlanta-area home Tuesday night, and a medical examiner said Wednesday that the
ex-player committed suicide. Since its inception in 1965, the Major League
Baseball draft has evolved from a quaint midsummer diversion to an exercise in
efficiency. Area scouts descend upon every college, high school and cornfield in
America in search of superstars and sleepers. Analytics departments track
numbers to the decimal point. Prospects land on the radar before they can shave,
and theyre paraded before scouts in showcases and summer leagues, where tools
are graded and each wart and insecurity is exposed. The level of scrutiny makes
it next to impossible for players to slip through the cracks.Yet T.J. Friedl
slipped through the cracks. And then he crash-landed on 30 scouting directors
heads after theyd strategized, mapped out their boards and spent most of the
money available to them under MLBs meticulous slotting system. By the time his
saga was complete, he had etched a strange new chapter in draft history.While
the Cincinnati Reds were hosting St. Louis at Great American Ball Park on
Thursday, Friedl, a left-handed-hitting outfielder from the University of
Nevada, was in the city undergoing a physical exam. Everything checked out fine,
and he reached agreement with the Reds on a $732,500 bonus, the largest ever for
a player who was bypassed in the draft.Scouts, true to form, are trying to
project what kind of player hell be. Friedl, a 5-10, 170-pound center fielder
with 70-grade speed on the 20-80 scouts scale, reminds some evaluators of former
Seattle Mariners outfielder Jeremy Reed. Others compare him to Brett Gardner, a
2015 All-Star who has 215 stolen bases in nine seasons with the New York
Yankees.Friedl, in contrast, sees a kindred spirit in Lenny Dykstra -- the
scrappy, pre-steroidal Dykstra who compensated for his lack of size with his
hustle and heart.I wanted to model my game after his, Friedl said. When Lenny
Dykstra was on the field, his size didnt matter, because he was tough as nails.
And his uniform was always dirty. After watching him play, I told myself, if I
came home and my uniform wasnt dirty, I didnt play the game the right way.If his
professional fairy tale continues, Friedl will be tormenting opponents and
testing the stain-removing acumen of clubhouse attendants for years to come.
Flash back to the late spring, and he was a garden-variety overachiever eagerly
awaiting his junior year at Nevada. Through a combination of confusion and fate,
Friedl is now a member of the Pioneer Leagues Billings Mustangs.Invisible manIn
the 50-year history of the draft, a select few players have been passed over in
June and gone on to make a mark in the big leagues. In June 1998, University of
Mississippi outfielder Bobby Kielty went undrafted because of a back injury,
only to appear on the scouts radar when he hit .384 in the Cape Cod League. The
Minnesota Twins signed Kielty to a $500,000 bonus in February 1999, and he went
on to play seven seasons in the majors.In the 1999 draft, Florida State junior
Kevin Cash was passed over because scouts were convinced he couldnt play third
base professionally. Everything changed when Cash went to the Cape Cod League,
both catchers on his team suffered injuries and the coach asked for volunteers.
Cash raised his hand, and he instantly looked like a natural behind the plate.
Toronto scouts Tim Wilken and Chris Buckley signed him for a $60,000 bonus, and
Cash spent eight years in the big leagues as a backup catcher with the Blue
Jays, Red Sox and three other clubs.Friedl is different. This wasnt just a case
of baseball misjudging his talent. He was hiding in plain sight, and the
executives, scouts, statistical analysts and agents/advisers who operate
baseballs draft machine either didnt know who he was or didnt realize how good
he was.Ive been working the draft for 14 years, and this is the craziest thing
Ive ever seen, said Adam Karon, Friedls agent. Its so bizarre. Almost nobody
knew this kid was eligible for the draft -- including himself.In a sense, it was
fitting that Friedl would be the one to buck tradition. He has been sneaking up
on people for most of his life.Friedl grew up with three older sisters in
Pleasanton, California, the San Francisco suburb that produced Giants shortstop
Brandon Crawford. He was a quick, assist-minded point guard on the Foothill High
School basketball team, a three-year letterman and a .308 hitter for the
baseball team. But his lack of size and strength limited his options, and his
choices came down to junior college or trying to make the team at Nevada as a
walk-on. He chose Option B.Friedl hit .216 in 37 at-bats as a freshman at Reno.
He was buried on the depth chart and resigned to being a spare part again as a
sophomore. When coach Jay Johnson laid out the options, Friedl decided to
preserve a year of eligibility and sit out the season as a redshirt.I took that
pretty hard, Friedl said. Ive always played with a chip on my shoulder, and that
was my MO after that. My whole thing was, Just prove yourself. Nothing in my
life has been given to me, and Ive had to earn everything Ive gotten. I stepped
back after the redshirt and said, Every game, Im going to grind and play with a
chip on my shoulder and work 100 percent.When Friedl returned for his third year
in Reno, Johnson had departed for Arizona and been replaced by a new coach, T.J.
Bruce. The Nevada staff saw enough potential to give Friedl a scholarship, and
he responded with a breakout season. Friedl ranked 11th in the nation with a
.401 batting average, while finishing second in triples (nine), 17th in on-base
percentage (.494) and 24th in hits (89).People say to me, What did you guys do
to him? Bruce said, laughing. I tell them, We stayed out of his way. Thats part
of the deal sometime, isnt it?Confusion all aroundUnder MLB rules, college
players need to be 21 years old or have exhausted three years of academic
eligibility (not three years of actual playing time) to qualify for the draft.
It never occurred to Friedl that he met the second requirement until a week
before the draft, when he received a call from a scout with an undisclosed
team.He basically told me, What would you say to being drafted? Friedl recalled.
I told him, Thanks for the offer, but Im not draft-eligible this year. And he
told me, Well, you are. But since the draft was so close and interest seemed
minimal, Friedl politely demurred and said he planned to return to Nevada for
the 2017 season.Friedl monitored the draft on the MLB Network, but oonly to keep
tabs on his teammates.
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overjoyed when Nevada second baseman Miles Mastrobuoni went to Tampa Bay in the
14th round, and doubly thrilled when Cleveland selected Wolf Pack outfielder
Trenton Brooks in Round 17.Unbeknownst to Friedl, his time would come. In late
June, he attended the Team USA trials in Los Angeles and played well enough to
earn a spot on the squad that would travel to Taiwan, Japan and Cuba. In his
month with Team USA, Friedl hit .290 with a .536 slugging percentage and wowed
the staff with his effort.He has been unbelievable, Team USA manager George
Horton told MLB.coms Jonathan Mayo in July. Not in our wildest dreams when we
were putting this team together did we expect to get what we are getting out of
him.After his performance for Team USA, the attention from teams built to the
point that Friedl needed an adviser to run interference. He chose the Sosnick,
Cobbe & Karon group, which had represented former Nevada stars Kevin
Kouzmanoff, Darrell Rasner and Braden Shipley in previous drafts. But this would
not be a typical negotiation. Because the draft had passed and most teams had
already spent their full allotment, Karon essentially had to squeeze blood out
of a turnip.Under MLBs draft system, each team is allotted a specific pool. Any
money spent over the pool limit is subject to a 75 percent tax. And once teams
exceed their allotment by more than 5 percent, they lose a first-round draft
pick in the following years draft.I had one team tell me, Wed give this kid over
a million bucks if we had it, Karon said. Thats when I said, This is a really
interesting situation. If everybody is out of money, maybe he goes back to
school. If he waited, maybe he could have gone in the first or second round next
year. But I think that would have been a bit of a risk for him. Teams look for a
track record in the draft, and T.J. didnt have that.While Karon declined to give
specifics on the talks, several sources said the field of candidates came down
to the Reds and Tampa Bay Rays, both of whom had sufficient wiggle room to make
a serious run at Friedl.Although the planets aligned in the Reds favor, they
were in a position to swoop because they had done their legwork. National cross
checker Mark McKnight, West Coast supervisor Rex De La Nuez and assistant
general manager Sam Grossman had seen Friedl at the trials in Southern
California, and they had the scouting reports ready to convince scouting
director Chris Buckley to take the plunge. Yes, thats the same Chris Buckley who
signed Kevin Cash out of the Cape Cod League 17 years ago.We didnt outsmart
anybody, Buckley said. There was some confusion in this case, and we were the
benefactors. But we also had three guys who took the assignment seriously and
did a professional job of covering Team USA. They didnt just say, This will be a
good guy for us next year. They did the work and said, No, this year.A baseball
mysteryInevitably, scouting directors and personnel throughout the game reflect
upon Friedls story and ask themselves, How the heck did this happen? Amid the
second-guessing and finger-pointing, teams are conducting CSI-caliber autopsies
to determine how everybody whiffed.Were the scouts entrusted with covering
Northern California negligent in failing to put Friedl on their radar?Being an
area scout is so very difficult and this situation is their worst nightmare,
said an American League personnel man. Im sure every scout in that area is
trying to retrace their steps seeing Nevada and how they could miss him.Were the
numbers crunchers at fault? How can anyone bat .401 as a redshirt sophomore and
go undrafted?I think most analytics departments take a broader look at
performance history, and his freshman and summer numbers werent very good before
this year, said a National League evaluator. In addition, Nevada plays in an
offensive league, so teams had reason to suspect that Friedls numbers were
artificially inflated.Bruce, Nevadas coach, is understandably sensitive to the
perception that he played coy with the biographical information and tried to
hide Friedl and bring him back to Reno for another season. The Nevada baseball
website appears to debunk that notion. It clearly states that Friedl played for
the Wolf Pack as a freshman and redshirted as a sophomore before returning for
the 2016 season.?If somebody says I was hiding him, I wouldnt have vouched for
him to go to Team USA baseball, Bruce said. Im trying to exhaust every avenue on
my end, because I dont want anybody to take blame for this. Ive texted my
friends in the industry and said, I apologize if I did anything. I just think
there was a lot of confusion on a lot of peoples parts -- especially with that
redshirt.For Friedl, nothing can obscure a head-spinning odyssey that has left
him, his family and his friends in a state of disbelief. During his adventure
with Team USA, he spoke several times a week with his mother, who constantly
asked him, Is it reality yet? Has it hit you?Late last week, Friedl passed
through Nevada to pick up his gear, and he received an invitation from a friend
to speak to a group of teenagers at a high school camp. During one point in the
conversation, he was asked to share the biggest lesson he has learned.I told the
kids, It doesnt matter if youre the highest-recruited kid out of high school or
a walk-on, non-recruited kid, Friedl said. No matter what, never stop
working.Thats the biggest lesson Ive learned from Coach Bruce: The game always
knows. The moment you take the game for granted and think you have everything,
thats when itll be taken from you. But as long as you keep your head down and
keep working hard, the game will reward you.Friedl has found that rewards -- and
pleasant surprises -- come in bunches. On Friday, he hopped a flight to Montana
and arrived in Billings around noon. He went directly to Dehler Park with his
luggage and found his name in the starting lineup for the Mustangs game against
the Ogden Raptors.Several hours later, Friedl launched the second pitch he saw
over the fence. And when his debut was complete, hed gone 3-for-3 with two home
runs. After a lifetime of overachieving and striving to validate his worth, T.J.
Friedl has to deal with a new reality: He wont have the luxury of sneaking up
anymore.
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