Mike Bianco has been running the pitching show in Oxford for the better part of a quarter-century. He's had first-rounders. He's had a College World Series-winning staff. He's had Gunnar Hoglund and Doug Nikhazy and Dylan DeLucia and every flavor of SEC bat-misser in between. Ask him about the arm currently working every Saturday in front of him and he'll tell you, flatly, that nobody he's ever coached has carried more pitches.
Cade Townsend, my friends, is different.
The problem for SEC hitters isn't guessing right. It's that there's nothing to guess.
Townsend is a 6-foot-1, 185-pound right-hander out of Aliso Viejo, California by way of Santa Margarita Catholic High School. It's the same SoCal prep factory that's been spitting out usable arms for decades. He's not the biggest guy on any given mound in the SEC; you won't mistake him for a power forward. What he is, is an …