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Correa Bringing Potential To Camp With Astros

Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2014 3:04 pm
by RealGM Wiretap

Carlos Correa, 19, is bringing loads of potential to camp with the Houston Astros.


The first overall pick in the 2012 First-Year Player Draft, Correa will be in Major League camp for the first time.


"I'm really excited about this year," Correa said. "I'm excited to go out there in big league camp and show them what I can do in the field and do a great job up there. It will be a fun experience."


Correa spent the 2013 season as the second-youngest player in the Midwest League and still led the league in OPS (.872) while finishing second in on-base percentage (.405) and third in batting average (.320) in his first full season in professional baseball.


"To play a full season of A ball at the age of 18 and have the success he's had is very unusual," Jeff Luhnow said. "It suggests a bright future for him. Every decade or so, a really special player gets to the Major Leagues before he turns 21, and I think he has a chance to be that type of player."

Via Brian McTaggart/MLB


Re: Correa Bringing Potential To Camp With Astros

Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2014 6:28 am
by Religious Freak
Every decade or so, a really special player gets to the Major Leagues before he turns 21, and I think he has a chance to be that type of player.


Hmm... Machado, Profar, Trout, Harper, Heyward, Fernandez, Stanton, Andrus, Hernandez, Upton, Castro, Cabrera, and Beltre all come to mind without really trying. Was this just an especially long decade?

I think even stupid Omar Infante did it.