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My name is Luke Scotchie, and I'm a sportswriter from Orlando, Fla. 

I write for Boston.com, where I currently cover the Boston Red Sox' many minor league teams and have covered the Boston Celtics. I also write features and profiles for Orlando Magic HQ, one of the most respected multimedia platforms that cover the Orlando Magic.

My work has also been published in The Boston Globe and The Florida Catholic, and I have been mentioned on Yahoo! Sports, Bleacher Report and Sports Illustrated.

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Email: lukedscotchie@gmail.com

Phone: (321) 370-9961

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Why Red Sox draft pick Payton Tolle meant so much to former scout Chris Reilly

Nothing could take Chris Reilly away from this conversation. Not the Oklahoma sun scorching his skin. Not the buzzing of the bugs that infiltrated the Stillwater summer sky. Not even the swings of the high school baseball players on Allie P. Reynolds Stadium’s on-deck circle about 100 feet away from him. Chris’s eyes and ears were locked onto this remarkable friend he had just made.

Her name was Jina Tolle. She was the mother of one of the high schoolers playing at Oklahoma State’s ballpark tha...
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How Roman Anthony became one of baseball's brightest prospects

The windiest November afternoons in Stillwater, Okla. don’t greet you with a warm smile upon an unprepared arrival. A blast of chilly air saps the energy out of your skin and makes your knees tremble. Your brittle fingers feel as though they’re one gust of wind away from snapping off your palm. You’ll be at risk of losing a hat if it doesn’t sit perfectly on your head.

But Roman Anthony doesn’t need warm greetings. Any place that allows him to improve his game is warm enough to keep his passion...
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Kristian Campbell's unprecedented rise is no surprise to his former coaches

Kristian Campbell taps his toe on the ground right before he swings his bat. It’s a subtle, quick tap, but it’s very hard to unsee it once you notice it. Campbell’s teammates at Georgia Tech caught onto his unique quirk. At some point, they started calling him “Toe Tap.”

Even associate head coach James Ramsey’s then 3-year-old son, Brogan, referred to his favorite player by that moniker. “I want to talk to ‘Toe Tap!” Brogan would implore his father during road trips. He wasn’t the only one. Eve...
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Brand New Role, ‘Same Old Goga’: How Goga Bitadze Went From Struggling in Georgia to Starting in Orlando | Orlando Magic HQ

It didn’t take too long for six-year-old Goga Bitadze to decide that he hated basketball.

Even taking one step on that court felt like stepping on an emotional minefield. One wrong move and his coach would explode. And make him run. A lot. There was so much running, and for what? He already knew that he messed up. His heart would hurt from the mistake he had just made; did that mean his legs had to as well? How do the other kids not pass out midway through these running sessions? Do they find i
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‘He’s Got This Charm:’ How Dennis Salvagio Became The Fat Guy | Orlando Magic HQ

Dennis Salvagio rises from his seat and picks up a briefcase full of court documents that never once touched the defendant’s table. They didn’t need to. Most of the facts about his client’s possession of marijuana charge have already been seared into his brain. Now that his client’s time in front of the judge is over for the day, Salvagio starts to saunter toward the door. He turns his head toward the back of the courtroom and locks eyes with his son Chris, who gets up from the bench and joins his father in their walk toward the car.
Boston.com •

'It really stems from who he is as a person': WooSox' Ryan Fitzgerald embraced the Worcester community — and the city repaid him

The clubhouse located underneath Polar Park’s home dugout is a large, vibrant room adorned with several wooden lockers, most of which look like near-replicas of one another. If no one’s sitting in front of it, or if you don’t read the WooSox-themed nameplates attached to each one of them, it’s nearly impossible to tell which locker belongs to which player.

But one particular locker, located near the left corner past the room’s entrance, stands out from the rest. Taped just above its nameplate i
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How Payton Tolle's mother helped him become a Boston Red Sox

Payton Tolle is not a small man. At 6-foot-6 and 250 pounds, Tolle towers over most of the batters brave enough to face him. But much larger than Tolle’s stature is the amount of enthusiasm he carries with him. When you meet Tolle for the first time, he greets you with a booming, animated voice that can fill entire stadiums. Once you sit down with him, he’ll chat with you about anything under the Boston summer sun with a Green Monster sized smile on his face.

That sunny disposition runs in the...
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Here's what convinced Conrad Cason to join the Red Sox

“Positive thoughts, positive outcomes,” Aaron Cason reminded himself as he ate his blueberry pancakes and hashbrowns. He knew that would be his breakfast order even before he and his teenage son Conrad arrived at the Cracker Barrel in Snellville, Ga. That order was the only thing anyone could predict on July 15. Every other question the Cason family had that day could only be answered by fate.

The most pressing of these questions was one the Cason family would have scoffed at a few years ago: c...
Case In Point •

How Alex Giannaros grew into BU women's basketball's "everything person"

BOSTON — BU women’s basketball head coach Melissa Graves concluded practice on October 3 the way she usually does — she rounded up her Terriers and brought them into a huddle at center court, where she rattled off a few quick points and words of advice. After about a minute, Graves broke the huddle and the coaches said their goodbyes for the morning.But this huddle wasn’t over for the players. There were some things on the mind of senior guard Alex Giannaros, who told her teammates to stay. For...
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Miles Brewster went from lockdown defender to heart and soul of BU men’s basketball. He’s back for one final year

BOSTON — Miles Brewster sprints over to the right side wing and waits for a pass from Michael McNair, who stays in the far left corner. He has no difficulties getting to this spot. He’s watched and participated in this exact transition drill several times over the past five years. What Brewster doesn’t see often is a pass like the one McNair throws to him. It’s a picture-perfect toss — a cross-court heave that somehow lands right in Brewster’s hands. The graduate guard dribbles the ball once. He...
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How a YouTube video and Massachusetts helped Dalano Banton reach the NBA

Dalano Banton would sit patiently in his elementary school classrooms, but he couldn’t resist looking at the clock every so often. After all, how could he? Each and every tick of that clock’s minute hand meant he was one minute closer to the start of his IT class. Banton could hardly wait to enter that classroom. The secret to improving his basketball skills lay just behind the room’s doors.

Once it became time for IT class to begin, Banton would waste no time in getting there. He’d race to the
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'I'm an underdog': How Joe Jacques turned his childhood Yankees fandom into a love for pitching in Boston

Joe Jacques was sitting in a barber chair on a cold December day when he heard his phone ring.

As his barber sculpted his brand new haircut, Jacques took out his still vibrating phone and read the name at the top. What could his agent want from him?

The impending call could be about a number of different things, but Jacques already had a good idea of what he was about to hear. The 2022 Rule 5 Draft was just around the corner, and Jacques, a minor league pitcher in the Pittsburgh Pirates organi
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Maine Celtics to host Lewiston Strong Night on Dec. 16 - The Boston Globe

The Boston Celtics organization will honor the victims of the mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, later this month.

The Maine Celtics, the G-League affiliate, will host “Lewiston Strong Night” on Dec. 16 during a game against the College Park Skyhawks. Players from the Portland-based team will wear special uniforms and the club will organize charity opportunities leading up to the game.

The uniforms, blue with a white border, are the colors of Lewiston High School. They feature the word “Lewisto
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Wilyer Abreu talks about his breakout season and what it took to achieve it

Wilyer Abreu stared into the eyes of Buffalo Bisons pitcher Matt Wisler. He stood firm in the batters’ box with his bat held high, ready for whatever Wisler would throw at him next. He had no choice but to be. Wisler had already bested Abreu twice in that at-bat with two strikes. One more and he would be called for Worcester’s second out of the sixth inning, losing the chance to send teammate Enmanuel Valdez home from second base.

But that pressure didn’t mean much to Abreu. The left fielder wa
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Former Celtic Tony Allen sentenced to community service in health care fraud case - The Boston Globe

Former Celtic Tony Allen was sentenced to community service and supervision for his role in a scheme to defraud the NBA, according to multiple reports. Allen was one of 18 players accused of defrauding the NBA’s health and welfare plan. The players allegedly took out fraudulent medical and dental claims from 2017-20, illegally taking a total of $5 million from the league. Allen reportedly stole $420,000 through these false claims. Allen pleaded guilty in April to conspiracy to commit health care
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What former Rule 5 Draft picks had to say about what it's like to be selected

As soon as the clock strikes 2 p.m. on Wednesday, the lives of multiple minor league baseball players are about to change.

That time marks the start of this year’s Rule 5 Draft, which will be held in Nashville, Tenn. to conclude the Winter Meetings. In this draft, each MLB team gets the opportunity to roster one unprotected MLB-ready prospect from another team for the price of $100,000 in round one — should they choose to do so and if their major league roster is not full — and several minor le
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Enmanuel Valdez reflects on his first stint with the Red Sox, his childhood team

A young Enmanuel Valdez pictured himself stepping inside the batters’ box of Fenway Park all the time. He always wondered what it would be like to do so in real life, and he could only imagine the rush of euphoria that would fill his body just by being on that diamond.

That scenario was one of his favorites to recreate in his head. When he was a kid growing up in the Dominican Republic, Valdez would frequently fantasize about playing baseball for the Boston Red Sox, the team that made avid fans
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Here's what Joe Mazzulla said about how he approaches in-season tournament games

ORLANDO, Fla. — The stage was set for an intense game of basketball. The Celtics spent their Friday afternoon in Orlando, playing the Magic in an in-season tournament game that both teams desperately wanted to win.

Fans of both teams packed Amway Center to watch these two hungry teams battle on the Magic’s gray and navy in-season tournament-themed court. The deafening sound of cheers seemed to fill the entire stadium whenever any play happened during the Celtics’ 111-95 loss to the Magic.

It w
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Here's what Kristaps Porzingis said about his defensive impact and chemistry with new teammates

Miles McBride is very good at scoring around the basket. The New York Knicks’ point guard is quick and agile enough to slice through opposing defenses and get buckets at the rim despite his six-foot-two stature.

The Knicks know how good of an attacker McBride is, and so they tried to get him a clean runway to the basket during the third quarter of Tuesday’s game against the Celtics, as they’ve done multiple times prior. But Kristaps Porzingis saw that play coming. He dropped back from the top o
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