There is an article in today's guardian.com that many here would find interesting entitled "Tom House: the baseball eccentric who teaches Tom Brady how to throw". 

 

"High above the baseball field at USC a pitching Buddha sits in an office surrounded by his computers and printouts, on the search always for a new wrinkle, a different way. Baseball fears Tom House’s influence."  Clients include Tom Brady, Drew Brees, and Carson Palmer.

 

"Down below, in the third-base bullpen, an eclectic group of athletes gathers in a winter morning chill. A rising pitching prospect from the Minnesota Twins stretches near a Yankees farmhand."

 

"Baseball is strange about him. The big league teams tend to hold him at a distance."

 

“Baseball is very reluctant to accept anything new from the field, let’s put it that way,” he says. “A lot of stuff (like statistical analysis) trickles down from the front office but not from the field. I will have to admit there could probably have been a better person than me delivering science to baseball.”

 

Here is the article. Does anyone know who "the rising pitching prospect"  is?

I do not see anything that includes as Twins' prospect as a photo.  I see the writeup. 

 

The only "Twins' prospect" I know of who work with House is (ahem) Scott Diamond.

 

I'm guessing the Twins didn't send whoever it is there.  So who are some of the pitching prospects from the LA area?  Gonsalves probably isn't the guy since he is from San Diego and is working out with James Shields down there. 

 

I'm guessing the Twins didn't send whoever it is there.  So who are some of the pitching prospects from the LA area?  Gonsalves probably isn't the guy since he is from San Diego and is working out with James Shields down there. 

 

They are likely working at San Diego State University.  USC is a good 3 hrs North of there, making it impractical to live in SD and work out in LA.

Jason Wheeler, Alex Muren and Matt Summers all went to college in the LA area. The description "rising prospect" is probably loose enough to encompass all players and complimentary enough to use for a guy you're not going to name.

 

But I'm guessing there are tons of baseball academies and training facilities in the area. The fact that other players from other teams are there suggests it may be a place where teams ask some of their players to go to.

I'm hoping future Ace Alex Meyer just gained control of his pitches under the guidance of a football guru...

Do people remember that Tom House also worked with Mark Prior?  Most such academied will have their successes and non-successes (not really failures when the game is a game of failure). 

Maybe Kohl Stewart is re-directing his career path back to college quarterback.

It could be any of 'em.  This is Minnesota...where all the children are above average.