A familiar name in a faraway place

[citycat]

Tyler Locklear, a former VCU infielder, has been called up to the Seattle Mariners. There's an article on the ESPN website that says the Mariners are going to waive staring 1B Ty France and make Locklear their starting 1B.

Locklear is from suburban Baltimore, MD. He attended Archbishop Curley, the kind of school Davidson recruits, or tries to recruit, many basketball players from. His father is from NC, as are many Locklears.

We have 7ish baseball scholarships. It might be smart to give a player as good as Tyler Locklear a full ride, or enough of a scholarship to make it attractive for him to come to Davidson. It would pay off in publicity to have a player in the major leagues.

[i77cat]

Good for him. He's the best baseball player I've seen play at Davidson in many years. Ball sounded different off of his bat. That's a pretty quick trip for him through the minors.

[DC69Wildcat]

We went into the 2022 A10 Tournament, played at Wilson Field, as the regular season champions and the #1 seed. We had a bye through to the 2nd round, where we met #2 VCU. Locklear hit a 3-run home run in the 3rd off our ace Blake Hely, and VCU never trailed. He finished 3-3 along with a walk and HBP, and 3 RBIs and 3 runs scored. He pretty much destroyed us. Michael Carico was the conference POY that year, and deserved it.

Locklear was fun to watch. I hope he does well.

[i77cat]

Carico deserved POY in 2022. Locklear was FOY and POY in 2021. Locklear was the better player. MLB knows it. Carico was drafted in the 5th round, Locklear went in the 2nd.