_Dalton Feeney is a Missouri baseball commit in the high school class of 2016. The Bismark native threw a perfect game for Century High School on April 21, striking out 18 of 21 batters._

**Peter Baugh**: When going through the recruiting process, what stood out about Missouri?
**Dalton Feeney**: I’ve been injured. I have a partially torn (ulnar collateral ligament), which is the Tommy John ligament. It’s just a slight tear. So when I came down to Mizzou, coach (Tim) Jamieson really talked about arm care, and that really stuck out to me due to my arm injury. He spoke to the process of every day what pitchers would do and how they take care of their arm, and I think that was probably the No. 1 thing.

**PB**: Did you get Tommy John surgery or are you letting it heal naturally?
**DF**: I’m just letting it heal naturally. It was just a slight tear, they said, and I wouldn’t require … Tommy John.

**PB**: Do you know when you’ll be back to 100 percent?
**DF**: They said that the Tommy John ligament won’t reconnect. I’ll just have to pitch with it. I’m having no problems with it right now; I feel like it’s 100 percent right now.

**PB**: What excites you most about college?
**DF**: I guess the new experience: meeting new people, playing with new people, playing at a higher level.

**PB**: Where has your velocity been recently?
**DF**: Recently, the past couple of games, the highest I’ve touched is 96 (mph). I’m probably averaging 90 to 95, touching 96 throughout the games.

**PB**: Are there different variations of the fastball, or is it mainly a four-seam?
**DF**: Mainly a four-seam. I throw the two-seam differently, it has a little more tail to it. Then I have two sliders. I have a slider that cuts across, and then a slurve action that curves and slides away.

**PB**: Have you been listening to MLB Draft speculation?
**DF**: I guess. I’ve had quite a few scouts in the crowd when I throw, but through my family, college is kind of set in stone. If anything would come up with the MLB, it would just have to be me and my family talking about it. But it’s pretty much set in stone in college.

**PB**: So unless it’s the right spot, you’ll be coming to Mizzou?
**DF**: Yes. Unless I’m a high pick or there’s some money to it.

**PB**: How much did Tanner Houck’s success factor into your decision?
**DF**: When I came down on my official visit and got to stay with a player, that was the guy I roomed with, Tanner Houck. Just seeing him on the field and stuff and how he handles himself and knowing that he’s probably one of the best pitchers in college baseball right now, just watching him and being with him was really fun and a new experience for me coming out of high school and seeing really what college ball is like.

**PB**: What do you want to work on before coming to Columbia?
**DF**: Just getting stronger, working on location more and just fine-tune some things in my mechanics and throwing and just get better everyday.

**PB**: Walk me through your perfect game last week.
**DF**: As a pitcher, warming up and throwing in the bullpen and playing catch, there’s just some nights where the ball is feeling good coming out of your hand. It was just one of those nights where I was in the bullpen, had command of all three pitches and just got the hitters off balance.

**PB**: Are you going to be in Columbia this summer?
**DF**: Yep. I’ll be doing some throwing program with Jamieson.