The lefty from the town of 'Romeo and Juliet' fell in love with baseball. He hopes to become MLB's first Italian-born-and-raised pitcher.
CLEARWATER, Fla. — Sam Aldegheri fell in love with baseball by accident. As a kid in San Martino Buon Albergo — a small town in Verona, Italy — his only connection to was forged through YouTube videos of . One of the few baseball fields in Verona was five minutes from his house. His older brother was a pitcher. The boys’ parents were too busy with work to take them to soccer, so this was it. “I grew up at the baseball field,” Aldehgeri said.
“I didn’t even know how to do medicine ball exercises or anything like that. So everything was like, ‘Wow.’ Even the Trackman during bullpens. At first, when they showed me the numbers, I’m like, ‘I don’t know what you’re showing me, man.’ For me, everything here is new.” Aldegheri credited his older brother, Mattia, who has pitched five years in Italian Serie A, with developing his mechanics.
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