Last night I was in Dayton to take in the Dragons versus Lansing Lugnuts. One of the clips I got from the game was of Taylor Trammell beating out an infield single. He’s one of the fastest players in the organization, so I will always go back and run a stop watch against his times on plays like this. On this day the 19-year-old outfielder went from home-to-first in 3.96 seconds, showing off plus-plus speed.
That’s not quite Billy Hamilton at his fastest, but not many guys in all of professional baseball are turning in sub 4.0 second times to first base.
I’ll be back in Dayton this afternoon/evening for more and hopefully I’ll have plenty of good video to go with some of the stuff I got from last night on a few other players. One clip that I got last night that I’m holding out for a little more video of the player is of TJ Friedl, who tripled on a baseball that hit the ground about three feet in front of the plate after contact, but got into right field and he, like Trammell above, showed off his speed on the play.