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Post by Hatson on Feb 13, 2007 18:03:20 GMT -5
I was just wondering.
Have you ever seen major league action?
You play 3rd base always or do you play other things too?
How far can you throw a baseball?
You're a longball man, what are your career bests for homers and batting?
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Post by Classicblast on Feb 13, 2007 21:09:03 GMT -5
That's quite a few questions.
Yeah I've played 3rdbase for the most part. In my pro career that's been mostly it. I have playes shortstop or second to finish games with pinch hitters, pinch runners or long extra inning games.
Once or twice in rookie league ball I did play a little outfield. Back in high school I even pitched and caught I have never pitched or caught in a professional game.
The Twins gave me a tryout a few years ago. I went to their spring training but was released in pre-season. That's about it for any taste of the majors. My career bests were in 2003 I hit 38 homeruns and batted 388.
My arm?
I can throw for pure distance at least 300 feet. I'm accurate to about 180 I would say at 160 you can hold your glove in the air and not move and I could throw the ball in your glove from 160 away.
The thing I really have to do is launch it fast and far. It's usually a bouncer and I have about 3 seconds to get it to the firstbaseman. By now I can dive up rotate while airborne and fire it to first all in a single motion and be accurate within an arm's reach.
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Post by Jason O'Lewa on Feb 22, 2007 16:37:44 GMT -5
classic blast, I hope you have your best season ever.
i hope you can play long enouf for your sons to get to see you play
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Post by Blastgirl on Feb 23, 2007 0:08:03 GMT -5
classic blast, I hope you have your best season ever. i hope you can play long enouf for your sons to get to see you play That was a very nice thing of you to say Jason. |
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Post by thunderbird on Feb 27, 2007 21:06:46 GMT -5
I am not sure how much Classic wants me to talk about per se but
I can say that since he was a very little child he only ever wanted to play baseball.
He would get in games whenever he would see a game being played in parks and anywhere.
Other kids sometimes went to movies or things and he would just work on his baseball skills.
When we were kids I was 15 or 16 years old our other brother would have been 13 or 14 Classic woudl have been 10 and 11.
When me and the middle brother played for the municipal team that ranged in age from 14 to 18 I was about 15 when I got on that team the next year Classic was only 11 and he tried out. He wanted to try out when he was 10 but my parents told him he was too young.
So when he was 11 he tried out. Remember some of the players were 18 (or 19 but lying about their age. Just to stay on the division.)
Well at age 11 Classic tried out. Because of his age and therefore size the manager and coaches were concerned. They made the tryout for him much harder because they didn't want him to make it.
Well that backfired,
"That little kid" ate up and spit out their tryout tests which were made harder to try to keep him off. That's because they were afraid he might get hurt. They said.
Well he ran bases faster than anybody else. He could throw as far (maybe not as hard) but definately as far as any and all of the 18 year olds.
They tried consoling pitches and he hammered the daylights out of that slow crap so they pitched faster and faster. He held his own no matter how fast they picthed.
He could hit better than most of the older guys who weren't tested as hard.
So without any reason to disqualify him they put him on as a backup outfielder. (A bull crap spot for him)
He was disappointed but my, my other brother and our parents told him hang in there this will be YOUR team by the 3rd year and possibly the 2nd. Well that didn't do anything for him right then and there.
When he did get to play which was not often he surprised people. I think a couple pitchers pitched slow to him because he was a little kid. When he hammered them they pitched a little faster but that didn't matter he still hit the ball.
By his 2nd season he was a starter (he should have been on his first but what the hell he was only 11 his first year)
By age 12 he was the best baseball player in the county never mind the league.
Pretty soon his own team didn't care if he was younger he gave us the best chance of winning and that's all we wanted.
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Post by Phil on Feb 28, 2007 16:30:21 GMT -5
I would say I'm not surprised that if a guy could go pro and reach AA at 18 or 19 years old he could have been a locak tear up at 12 or13.
Even if the team he played for was a league set for higher ages.
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