Left-handed Oscar Tucci on the BBC’s mound

Twenty-one years, in the U18 national team, he will arrive only in May: first he will go to the USA, he won a scholarship

GROSSETO. The diesse of the Bbc Grosseto Filippo Olivelli makes available to the manager Jairo Ramos Gizzi one of the best prospects of Italian baseball, Oscar tucci.

The left-handed pitcher born in 2000 in Ortona (Chieti) will officially enter the red and white roster only in May: on January 5th he will fly to the United States after winning a scholarship in New Mexico Junior College and will play with the Hobbs, in the same conference. of Clarendon College, which he attended in 2019. «Filippo Olivelli – says Tucci – had already contacted me last year, but I was already at my word with the Grizzlies Torino. In recent weeks, however, I have not hesitated to bond with a company that is growing and that has put together a top-level team. I was able to directly touch the environment that has been created in Grosseto and I can’t wait to arrive in a square where there is a great baseball culture ».

Tucci, before marrying in Turin (1-0, with 12 rounds in 7 reliefs and 0.00 of mpgl) played for five seasons in Macerata: «I have good memories. It was a big family ». Raised in Chieti Baseball, where he made his debut at a very young age in Serie B, in 2015 Tucci moved to Tirrenia to attend the Fibs Academy for three years. Hence the climb in the Under 18 National Team, with participation in two European Championships, one in Spain and one at Jannella in Grosseto and a World Cup in Thunder Bay, Canada in 2017. In August 2018 he was noticed by the scouts during the International Stars Showcase in Arizona, and in the 2019-2020 season benefited from a scholarship with the Clarendon Bulldogs.

“In New Mexico I will study in a faculty that is halfway between physiotherapy and motor science – he explains – The regular season will end in the first two weeks of May, but if we go to the playoffs I will not return to Italy before the end of the month”. In short, Oscar Tucci will not be on the field on 7 May in Macerata, in a double confrontation that will probably be positive for the qualification for the title poule. “I trust in the value of my new teammates – concludes the pitcher from Abruzzo – and I will give my contribution to face the big Serie A teams”. Oscar Tucci goes to reinforce the Italian mound, which he can still count on Federico Cozzolino, Junior Oberto, Stalin Hidalgo e Leonardo bulfone. Instead, the former Sala Baganza arrived for the foreigner race Gonzales. In the notebook of Diesse Olivelli there is however the engagement of another community pitcher. Maurizio Caldarelli

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