{"id":6143,"date":"2018-03-30T09:40:29","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T14:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prospects1500.com\/?p=6143"},"modified":"2020-05-03T17:33:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-03T22:33:18","slug":"tucker-davidson-interview-braves-prospect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prospects1500.com\/nl-east\/braves\/tucker-davidson-interview-braves-prospect\/","title":{"rendered":"Tucker Davidson Interview (Braves Prospect)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"tucker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/31340861@N07\/40405040344\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/783\/40405040344_8f6c5b7a75_z.jpg\" alt=\"tucker\" width=\"366\" height=\"528\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><em>Braves Tucker Davisdson &#8211; photo credit Jeff Morris (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffMorrisAB\">@JeffMorrisAB<\/a>)<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=davids000tuc&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\nTucker Davidson<\/a> is a 22-year-old southpaw out of Amarillo, TX who last year went from a relatively unknown 19th round pick in the 2016 Draft to putting himself in the same conversation as his draft class mates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=anders000ian&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Ian Anderson<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=wentz-000joe&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Joey Wentz<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=wilson004bry&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Bryse Wilson<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=muller000kyl&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Kyle Muller<\/a> last season when he burst onto the scene mid season as a starter in Rome. His fastball velocity ticked up and the former JUCO product posted excellent numbers in the SALLY &#8211; 102.1 IP, 2.60 ERA, 101 K, 30 BB, 1.22 WHIP, 2.97 FIP. He also picked up the save for the Braves against the Future Stars Wednesday night 3\/28, working a scoreless frame.\u00a0I of course asked him about those numbers and his velocity change but first we had some fun&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeff Jones &#8211; Tucker, thanks for taking time out of your schedule to do this interview. I&#8217;ll get to the baseball stuff first but since you&#8217;ve been in Minors Spring camp with all the guys I figured I&#8217;d start out with some fun rapid fire questions first.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Best\/Worst Fortnite Player?<br \/>\n<\/strong>TD &#8211; Best- <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=giardi000sal&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Sal Giardina<\/a><br \/>\nTD &#8211; Worst- Kyle Muller<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best hair?<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=allard000kol&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Kolby Allard<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Best singer? (Besides Anfernee &#8220;American Idol&#8221; Seymour of course)<br \/>\n<\/strong>Honestly I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve heard a good singer haha. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=pache-000cri&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Cristian Pache<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=rodger000jor&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Jordan Rodgers<\/a> will have dance offs all the time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Clubhouse\/Bus DJ?<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=toussa000tou&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Touki Toussaint<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Walk up song planned out when you get to Double-A?<br \/>\n<\/strong>Loud and Heavy- Cody Jink<\/p>\n<p><strong>Texas BBQ or the field?<br \/>\n<\/strong>Texas BBQ<\/p>\n<p><strong> Is everything in fact bigger in Texas?<br \/>\n<\/strong>Without a doubt. Amarillo, TX, where I\u2019m from, has a restaurant the Big Texan with a 72 oz. steak challenge.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ok time to get to the nitty gritty, baseball stuff. How old were you when you started playing and when did you convert to pitching?<br \/>\n<\/strong>I started playing baseball when I was 4 years old. I started pitching around 9-years-old. But didn\u2019t get very serious about it till sophomore year of high school. I actually wanted to play college football throughout high school. I was the quarterback. I didn\u2019t focus just on baseball till college.<\/p>\n<p><strong> The first time I saw you pitch was at Instructionals in 2016 and one of the coaches mentioned you had 4 pitches and it caught my attention do you mind breaking down your arsenal?<\/strong><br \/>\nI mainly throw a 4-seam fastball, a curveball and change up. I had a slider that I still work on and will throw to leftys but I prefer my curveball due to the speed change. I like to turn my slider into a cutter hybrid like Kershaw throws.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You went from being a 19th round pick topping out at 93 in college to being ranked as a prospect on national lists touching 96. Anything you credit to the uptick in stuff?<\/strong><br \/>\nDrivelines weighted balls. I started using them in college and the velo went up a little bit. Once I got drafted I was excited to be able to train and really focus on increasing velocity. I think training, doing baseball specific lifts, working on being explosive and mobility helped tremendously.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you enjoy doing outside of baseball?<\/strong><br \/>\nI love playing golf but I\u2019m terrible. I\u2019m currently caught up in this Fortnite addiction, which 80% of the organization is also.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saw you were Connor McDavid for Halloween. Are you a hockey guy? What&#8217;s your team?<\/strong><br \/>\nI am a hockey guy. I grew up a Dallas Stars fan with Mike Modano, but I found Connor McDavid on YouTube before he got drafted. He then became my favorite player.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thanks again for doing this interview. Anything you want to say to <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.prospects1500.com\/atlanta-braves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Braves\">Braves<\/a> fans?<br \/>\n<\/strong>There\u2019s a lot of talent in this organization, and the years to come are going to be really fun.<br \/>\nAlso I highly recommend checking out this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseballamerica.com\/stories\/braves-tucker-davidson-keeps-getting-better\/\">Baseball America piece<\/a> on Tucker Davidson written by the always excellent J.J. Cooper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Braves Tucker Davisdson &#8211; photo credit Jeff Morris (@JeffMorrisAB) Tucker Davidson is a 22-year-old southpaw out of Amarillo, TX who last year went from a <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prospects1500.com\/nl-east\/braves\/tucker-davidson-interview-braves-prospect\/\" title=\"Tucker Davidson Interview (Braves Prospect)\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":6169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,136,1457,12],"tags":[2748,64,2749],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tucker Davidson Interview (Braves Prospect)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prospects1500.com\/nl-east\/braves\/tucker-davidson-interview-braves-prospect\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tucker Davidson Interview (Braves Prospect)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Braves Tucker Davisdson &#8211; 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