How Zac Thornton emerged out of nowhere to become sudden Mets pitching sensation

Source: New York Post

Zac Thornton was a skinny left-hander throwing his fastball in the 78-80 mph range when his family relocated from Minnesota to Lawrence, Kan. , where his father had accepted a job as a track coach at the University of Kansas, before his junior year of high school. Still unrefined, he got buried on the varsity baseball team behind established players as a junior before COVID hit and wiped out his senior season.