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Little Leaguer is big league size

Published Aug. 13, 2013 1:00 a.m. ET

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We already know who will be the biggest star at the Little League World Series. With emphasis on biggest.

The team from Grosse Pointe, Mich., has a young man who throws heat and swings a big stick and has led his team to Williamsport. He is 12 years old.

But Chad Lorkowski is 6-foot-2 and 200 pounds. They call him “Swag Daddy,” and he struck out 10 and hit two homers in Grosse Pointe’s Williamsport-clinching win.

Let's not be cynical and recall Danny Almonte. We have no reason to believe Lorkowski, already bigger than lots of major leaguers, is anything other than one of those boys who just happens to shoot up really early.

Plus, can you imagine his poor parents? How much must that kid eat? And they also have to outfit him in size-15 cleats.

Hope there's a king-size bed awaiting him in Williamsport.

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