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Watch: Wellington takes Palm Beach Central in Baseball Wild Games
After a forward boy at the top of the 10th innings, Wellington won the game on two wild pitches.
- James Litman, a promising young pitcher at West Boca Ratton High School, chose to play college baseball close to the house at Florida Atlantic University.
- Litman quickly earned a place as a new person in Fau’s weekend rotation, which affects the coach with a list of his maturity and diverse pitching performances.
- Coach praises Litman’s high baseball IQ and believe that he has significant ability for future development.
Boca Raton- This is a 9-meal drive with a busy Glade Road from Florida Atlantic University from West Boca Ratton High School.
And when James Litman, one of the best pitching possibilities of Palm Beach County, began to consider, where he needed to look as far as to play college baseball.
After attending FAU sports as a boy and going to the campus as West Boca Sophomore, Litman said he quickly decided that the school was “an ideal house.”
Owls can say that Bhavna is mutual. Shortly after setting foot in the campus in the previous collapse, the hard-throying right-hand left a initial impression, the pitching coach Jordan Tabakman said.
“You can tell that there was a lot with the bat,” said Tabu Kalaman. “He pushed himself forward with too much maturity, as he was at the college level for many years … he was our most prominent pitcher from the gate, and not only a pitch commanding. He was mixing three pitches and was easily out the college’s hits. It was a lot of fun to watch.”
Litman earned a place in FAU’s three-man weekend rotation and has been there in all the season. After 11 starts, he performs 41 strikes out in 3–2 and 45 2/3 innings with 4.93 ERA. “He is giving us a chance to win every Sunday,” said Tabakman.
In his latest beginning, Litman played only three innings, giving Charlot a 4–2 defeat to four runs on five hits. But the owl (28–15, 10–8 American athletic conference) has won seven of the 11 matches he launched.
Litman made a beginning as a new person in West Boka and the staff for the next three years. His high school figures: 19-9, 1.79 ERA, 240 strikeout 187 2/3 innings. Bulls scored deep playoff runs, but never reached the final four of the state who lost in the regional semi -finals in 2022 and 2023 and lost in the regional final in 2024.
With a fastball in the 90s, Litman was on the radar of college scouts until the age of 15. When FAU coach John McCormac took him on a tour of the campus.
“Coach Mac was welcoming a lot,” Litman said.
Litman said that the facilities of the owl did not match the power conference schools, but it was not a major concern. “I really don’t care about big pitching labs or any of them,” he said. “I just care about the family.”
Owl’s family – and his own.
Being close to the house was “a big factor because my family was a large part of my life, so it’s good to come out and see me,” Litman said.
Tabakman was immediately influenced by Litman’s maturity.
“This is a major adjustment,” he said. “For those who are 18, 19 years old, it could be very frightening. But you could see his eyes – there was no intimidation. He was ready to compete, he knew what he was here, he took himself as if he was here for three years.”
Freshman starters are rare in most divisions I programs, but FAU has not followed the traditional formula. The other two pitchers in the rotation, Sophomore tray beard and Junior Tyler Murphy, began as new ones.
“We clearly recruit (Litman), so we knew the ability,” said Tabwan. “Our plans were to compete for him for an early role with the bat. We are comfortable to do so with new people; we have been very successful in doing so.”
There are three weeks left in the regular season, the owls are gearing up in the Fla, Clearwater for the AAC tournament in late May. He is one of the five teams that tickle tightly behind the UTSA (33–10, 15-3) of the conference.
Although injuries to the outfielder Jake Duar (leg) and infielder pat ward (knee) have forced McCormac to avoid the lineup, Litman is optimistic about owl’s possibilities.
“I think the team has come very close because we have lost Duar and Ward,” he said. “I definitely think that we can crush the conference championship.”
Meanwhile, the tabolmen are eager to see Litman’s career.
The coach said, “His baseball is away from the IQ chart.” “So to start outing, start starting, he is able to sit down and break things – what has gone well, not done well – and then really apply it to the next week.
“He is just starting. There are some things that they still need to improve, about whom he knows, but we can ask what he is doing this year.”