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has been flashing top-of-the-rotation potential ever since being drafted 28th overall in 2017 with the pick the Toronto Blue Jays gained when they let fan favouritewalk as a free agent. So it was little surprise he was able to go and look dominant against the reigning World Series champion Washington Nationals in his debut.
"I was taking it all in in the first inning," Pearson said."Looking around and just taking mental pictures of where I was at, just thinking about the long three years I went through, the injuries, all the adversity I went through, to be able to overcome all that to be here and I knew all my friends and family were watching from back home. It was just very special for me.
"I settle in throughout the game and you’ll see my velocity start getting higher as the game goes on because I get more settled into my mechanics and I get more comfortable with the strike zone, I learn the umpire’s strike zone and me and [Danny] Jansen, or whoever’s catching, we get on the same page and we start grooving," Pearson said.Over the first three innings, Pearson relied on exactly what got him here: a devastating fastball-slider combination.
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