Drew Aller

Great players attack their weaknesses and turn them into strengths.

And I think that's where people see that Connor Griffin is different.

This is a guy who...

I remember Andrew McCutcheon saying most 19-year-olds or most teenagers show up here, look like they're wearing their father's clothes when they put on a major league uniform.

They look like the clothes are a little bit too big for them.

They're not quite ready yet.

And McCutcheon was speaking from experience.

In Connor Griffin's case, he walks out there looking like a major leaguer physically.

And I think more impressive is that he acts like one.

He carries himself like this.

The moment is never too big for him.

And maybe that's because he's a kid who was playing varsity baseball for a prep powerhouse in Mississippi as an eighth grader.

I think the moment has never been too big for him.

He's been on the national stage for the U.S.

national team.

He's been on the national stage for the draft.

And he's been on the national stage now in the minor leagues as a guy who,

has dominated levels where the players are several years older than him and has been completely unfazed by being, you know, a boy amongst men instead of looking like a man amongst boys.

Oh, I don't think it's even a question.

You know, with Derek Shelton was always a running joke is when we were, when we were going to ask him about the opening day starter and when he was going to reveal that to her.