re: Friday Baseball Thread

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Was Condon an MLB draft risk or is he the rare, undiscovered phenom that nobody saw coming?

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Out of nowhere. He was 6’5 195 lbs out of HS and was heading to Rhodes College in Memphis to play baseball and football until his HS coach at his small private school in Marietta talked Stricklin into giving him a PWO spot at UGA. His HS coach recognized that his swing was really good, he just needed to add muscle/weight and face better pitching to gain reps.

Stricklin agreed but on the condition that he redshirt to bulk up and play in a Summer league to get reps (Condon’s HS team was fine but he was on like the B squad for his travel team - definitely not the profile of an SEC caliber player, let alone what he has become).

He ended up adding about 20 lbs his RS year and word started getting around Fall of 2022 that they had something. Spring 2023 rolls around and he ends up breaking the SEC freshman HR record with 25 and then obviously he’s doing what he’s doing this year.

Dude is an absolute unicorn in the truest sense. Nobody could have predicted he would do this.