Baseball America: Unexpected Outcome for Charlie Blackmon

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Cool story on how Blackmon went from pitcher to outfielder between his junior and senior season at GT.

By the time teams were finalizing their draft lists, however, Blackmon had made a believer of Hall. How big a believer? Big enough that he convinced Rockies special assistant Danny Montgomery that Blackmon was the real deal.

“I flew in on Sunday to see a kid at a Sunday game, (and) coach Hall tells me to keep an eye on his center fielder, that the kid had been a pitcher, but he’s hitting now,” Montgomery said. “He told me, ‘Rusty Greer worked with him during the summer and kept saying I need to let the guy hit, so I let the guy hit.’”

Montgomery showed up for the Sunday game and kept an eye on Blackmon. He liked what he saw.

“Tech had a makeup game on Monday, so I decided to stay another day and see (Blackmon) again,” Montgomery said. “I didn’t tell anybody, not even our area scout. I show up on Monday and I am sitting at the top of the stadium, away from everybody else. I like him.”
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