Watching that home run from the dugout Wednesday was Tyler Stephenson, 19 years old, and the Reds’ #1 pick from the 2015 draft, a catcher out of Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia, the physical image of another catcher signed out of Binger, Oklahoma forty years ago that went on to become a hall of famer and by consensus…the best to ever play the position. Publisher/Editor Sonny Fulks writes the Big Ten and Buckeye baseball for Press Pros.
They were still talking about it on Thursday – front office people, ushers, fans, and the Great Lakes Loons. The Reds’ #1 pick out of the University of Tennessee in the recent June draft launched one to dead center field that cleared the 404 mark forty feet high…and landed on the peak of a party tent to the left and behind the batter’s backdrop. Mind you, it wasn’t just a routine home run. Enjoy!ĭayton – Nick Senzel hit a home run Wednesday night in the Dayton Dragons’ win over the Great Lakes Loons, the Los Angeles Dodgers’ entry in the Class A Midwest League. Since then he’s come a long way to become an anchor of the Reds’ current success. Note: Then and now…we enjoy sharing encore posts of articles previously published, including this one of Reds catcher Tyler Stephenson, as he sounded and appeared as a Dayton Dragon back in the summer of 2016. In successive years they’re the Reds’ #1 draft picks, playing under the expectation that they’re going to be stars…and soon!Įd. Tyler Stephenson and Nick Senzel have more in common than just being teammates on the Dayton Dragons.
Tyler Stephenson (above, pictured as a Dayton Dragon in 2016) hit a home run in his first major league at bat with the Reds.
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