If I can work on things and get better at what I’m lacking in, the growth can be incredible.” By Comparison In a later interview, he said, “Too many people try to compare themselves to someone else and that just isn’t healthy because no two people are the same. If I work harder than people I know I'll be able to do what I want to.” “If you beat me in a video game we're playing again, just so I can show you that I'm better than you. 'I just want to be the best, not only the best I can, but the best out there,' he told his hometown newspaper The Rock Hill (S.C.) Herald back in 2018. Putting in the needed work to do it is Petit’s calling card.
That would offset a fastball that has good arm-side run and hopefully confound batters expecting explosive smoke from the big guy. The 24-year-old’s biggest potential asset could come from adding movement to a developing changeup. Petit needs to get more bite on a slider that is currently too slurvy.
