Nu'u Contrades was supposed to be at Cal State Northridge. He was supposed to stay healthy. None of it has gone the way it was drawn up, and somehow, four years into his Tempe stay, the redshirt junior from Ewa Beach is the most dangerous version of himself we've ever seen.
The Saint Louis School product committed to CSUN out of Honolulu in the summer of 2021, only to flip to Arizona State that September after a campus visit with Willie Bloomquist. He arrived as the 2021-22 Gatorade Hawaii Baseball Player of the Year, slotted in at the hot corner as a freshman, and got the kind of moment kids dream about. Just a teenager from off the island, Contrades hit a three-run shot to flip the script on Arizona in the Territorial Cup, what he himself called "the biggest hit of my life." The flashes were there from day …