{"id":35973,"date":"2025-07-03T18:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T18:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/35973\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T18:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T18:29:08","slug":"dodgers-6-foot-7-pitcher-from-south-sudan-has-los-angeles-fans-excited-about-his-fastball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/35973\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers&#8217; 6-foot-7 pitcher from South Sudan has Los Angeles fans excited about his fastball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Deng Thon just looks like a pitcher.<\/p>\n<p>At 6-foot-7 and 185 pounds, the lanky right-hander has quickly gotten trackers of the Los Angeles Dodgers&#8217; minor league system excited.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a long way from MLB, at just 17 years old, but check out this footage:<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/new-york-yankees\/news\/yankees-aaron-judge-dodgers-shohei-ohtani-mariners-cal-raleigh-mlb-history\/8e7999ae2fe1d0ed385b5705\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Aaron Judge, Shohei Ohtani, Cal Raleigh combine to make MLB history;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Aaron Judge, Shohei Ohtani, Cal Raleigh combine to make MLB history<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Deng has already made history. He&#8217;s the first player from South Sudan to sign a professional baseball contract, which he inked in January.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of his signing, Deng was said to have a 95 mile per hour fastball. He&#8217;s currently with the Dodgers&#8217; Dominican Summer League team but has not yet appeared in a game.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a long baseball journey ahead, but Deng has already come a long way. Don&#8217;t bet against him climbing the ladder all the way to Dodger Stadium.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE MLB NEWS:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joseph Deng Thon just looks like a pitcher. At 6-foot-7 and 185 pounds, the lanky right-hander has quickly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":35974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[3090,29499,1582,4711,276,29498,2961,224,2502,5337,1266,4712,10419],"class_list":{"0":"post-35973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-aaron-judge","9":"tag-baseball-scouting","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-cal-raleigh","12":"tag-california","13":"tag-joseph-deng","14":"tag-la","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","17":"tag-losangeles","18":"tag-mlb","19":"tag-shohei-ohtani","20":"tag-sudan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114790725404476675","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}