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Sports Illustrated
By Dan Gartland The Angels already employ two of the most impressive players in baseball: Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani. Now they’ve added another. Ben Joyce was taken in the third round of last year’s MLB draft after lighting up radar guns in his lone season at Tennessee. Last May, he threw the hardest pitch in NCAA history, a fastball that was clocked at a blazing 105.5 mph. He zipped through the Angels’ minor league system and made his MLB debut on May 29. All he’s done since then is throw absolute heat on a remarkably consistent basis. Joyce picked up his first MLB win on Wednesday night ag…