The ESPN broadcast of the 2024 MLB Draft preview show Sunday came out of a commercial break with highlights of Curacao in the 2016 Little League World Series.

It contained clips of a young Jurrangelo Cijntje on the mound alternating pitches with his right and left arm.

Cijntje, a Mississippi State baseball sophomore, then joined the broadcast panel for an interview less than an hour before the start of the first round. Cijntje is ranked as the No. 25 prospect by MLB.com.

He answered a handful of questions, including how comfortable he feels to pitch with either of his arms in the MLB.

"I'm pretty excited to keep doing both," he said. "At the end of the day, if a team wants me only on the right side, I'm happy to do it because at the end of the day I just want to win games. But I think (pitching) from both sides is what I really want to do."

Cijntje went on to explain that he uses a six-finger glove while pitching. He also clarified that the rules prevent him from using more than one arm to pitch during an at-bat — the decision has to be made before the first pitch of the at-bat is thrown.

Cijntje pitches with both arms because he wanted to mimic his father at a young age, who played professional baseball in the Netherlands. He throws a fastball, slider and changeup as a righty and just a fastball and slider as a lefty.

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Cijntje is coming off a breakout season with the Bulldogs where he dropped his ERA from 8.10 as a freshman to 3.67 as a sophomore. He started 16 games in 2024 for an 8-2 record in 90.2 innings.

Sam Sklar is the Southern Miss beat reporter for the Hattiesburg American. Email him at ssklar@hattiesb.gannett.com and follow him on X @sklarsam_.

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