In the middle of his dominant senior season a the ace of Hudson High School, a small school in East Texas, something changed for Belt. His velocity dropped below 90 mph. As his fastball’s speed dipped, so did his draft status.
Those who attend minor league baseball games are usually unfamiliar with the players they watch, but Taylor Teagarden's name piques fans’ interest when it’s called at the Dell Diamond.
Parker French, then a freshman, was battling for playing time but, thanks to an alarming number of injuries and shortcomings, he found himself on the mound as the go-to guy for the Longhorns on Friday nights by midseason. He enters this year as the team’s ace.
