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CENTRAL SQUARE — Jake Moran received a text message from a lacrosse idol on the way home from an offseason club tournament, setting him on the path to becoming Central
April 8th, 2021
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Opening Day rosters featured 17 Top 100 Prospects, yet it s some unheralded rookies who have made the biggest impact during the first week of the big league season. Tigers outfielder Akil Baddoo, Reds second baseman Jonathan India, Dodgers utilityman Zach McKinstry and White Sox catcher Yermín Mercedes have generated plenty of highlights.
There are several prospects who didn t begin the season in the Majors who will make their presence felt later in the year. Below, we highlight one for each club.
AMERICAN LEAGUE EAST
A 20-year-old pitcher reaching the Majors this early? It isn’t out of the realm of possibility. With a September birthdate, Woods Richardson was young for his class and, if not for 2020, would be entering his third full Minor League season. The right-hander sports four above-average pitches and has little issue filling up the zone. The Blue Jays got a good look at that skill set this spring, when he fanned eight over e
CENTRAL SQUARE â Katie Hart has unknowingly been pushing Julia Mann to reach her loftiest goal for more than seven years.
Mann became the all-time leading scorer in Central Square varsity girls and boys basketball history by surpassing Hartâs previous record of 1,378 points during a victory on Feb. 27 at Oswego High School.
Mann, the Redhawks senior and fifth-year varsity guard, entered this week with more than 1,400 career points.
For Mann, the achievement marked the culmination of a mission she established after going to a varsity girls basketball game in fifth grade and being mesmerized by the balls in the trophy case at Paul V. Moore High School, zoning in on one that read: Katie Hart, 1,378.
There was a lot we'd like to forget about 2020, which also happened to feature the shortest and strangest Major League season we'll probably ever see. But ascendant talents such as Luis Robert, Cristian Pache and Ke'Bryan Hayes will remember the year more fondly as the one in which they