Hey, remember Mike Stanton?
No, not that one. He's retired now.
I mean Mike Stanton 2.0, or, wait, 3.0.
Mike Stanton extreme.
I mentioned him in my blog post about Baseball America's top 20 prospects:
Unlike his long-lived but largely un-exciting namesake pitcher, the hitter Mike Stanton is extreme in almost every respect. He's extremely young, having just turned 19 in November. He's extremely tall, 6'5" to be precise, with 210 lbs of muscle on his frame. He swings extremely hard, it seems, as evidenced by his 153 whiffs in 125 games, and also his having led the Sally League in homers (39), slugging (.611) and total bases (286). He also got hit by 11 pitches, not far off the league lead of 17, which suggests that he positions himself extremely close to ...
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