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For highly touted Braves pitching prospect J.R. Graham, the instruction he will receive during his first big-league spring training couldn't come from a better source: Tim Hudson. After all, the veteran right-hander is his childhood idol dating back to Hudson's playing days with the Athletics. "I always kind of liked how he threw and he was a good guy to emulate," Graham told MLB.com. "He's a smaller guy like I am, maybe a little taller and thinner. But it just kind of happened that I threw like him. ... He throws that nice moving sinker, and mine is a two-seam [fastball]. He's getting that early contact and he's going seven, eight or nine innings every game. A durable guy like that is someone to look up to."
