Hamilton can play CF/LF/RF
Josh returned to the hit zone last night with 2 hits on the night in the Reds blowout of St. Louis. He batted in the leadoff in CF and ended up on the night playing all three outfield positions.
The Cardinals paper had some good insight as identifying Wayne Krivsky as the one who pitched the Hamilton idea from the beginning:
“I want to run something by you,” Narron recalls Krivsky saying over dinner at the winter meetings. “We want to draft a guy with history.”
When Krivsky said the name, Narron was stunned.
He knew Hamilton’s “history.” He has known the kid so long that he knew Hamilton’s pre-history, back before he’d spiraled out of baseball and into drug and alcohol addiction. Narron’s brother had coached Hamilton one season when the player was a teenager and had told Jerry, “You’ve got to see this kid play.”
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