The dream of someday walking onto the fresh-cut green grass of a Major League Baseball stadium is a hope all baseball players share. You know the moment you’ve been waiting and training for your whole life has come true when you look into the stands and see the thousands of fans who came to see you play. For JB Bukauskas, a senior pitcher for Stone Bridge High School, that dream is creeping closer and closer.
The right handed senior pitcher has signed with North Carolina University, a school with an outstanding history of baseball prowess. Some scouts expect Bukauskas to enter the MLB Draft in June and be selected as early as the first three rounds, giving up his spot in Chapel Hill. If this happens, the phenom could be settling into his enormous white mansion while most other students his age are getting settled into their cramped new dorm room.
The 17 year-old Bukauskas’s specialty pitch is the fastball, which has regularly been in the mid-90 mile per hour range, and has even touched 100 mph. One of Bukauskas’s most stellar performances of the season came against Briar Woods High School on April 22nd, with a perfect game and managed 14 strikeouts.
Bukauskas, a right-handed pitcher standing at six feet one inch and weighing 200 pounds, has been playing on the Stone Bridge varsity squad since his freshman year. The Bulldogs currently stand at 9-1 on the season, defeating the Saxons on April 21st by a score of 6-3. Luckily for the Saxon hitters, he was not pitching that day.
Every baseball player, at one point or another, dreams of making it big in the majors. The MLB Draft will take place on June 5th, and if all goes well of JB Bukauskas, his name will be announced in front of thousands of people, beginning his professional career.