Colin Moran has lofty expectations
Posted Jul 18, 2013
Colin Moran is only 20 and fresh off a college career at North Carolina. But he has a professional pedigree. Moran is ready for this. But he knows he’s a long way from the bright lights of Miami. But there he was, digging in and fidgeting with his batting gloves as he did at UNC, as he’d done all his life. On a 2-2 pitch, with his whole life ahead of him, Moran turned on one.
(Greensboro News & Record)
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