Rangers' Huff ends stint at big league camp
Sam Huff began March with a colossal home run. The rest will fly much further under the radar.The Rangers on Friday assigned MLB.com's No. 74 overall prospect and 11 others to Minor League camp.
Sam Huff began March with a colossal home run. The rest will fly much further under the radar.
The Rangers on Friday assigned MLB.com's No. 74 overall prospect and 11 others to Minor League camp.
Right-hander
Huff went1-for-12 with six strikeouts in his second spring in the Cactus League, his lone hit being a solo homer against the Dodgers on Sunday that nearly cleared the batter's eye at Camelback Ranch.
Good morning!
— Texas Rangers (@Rangers) March 2, 2020
We're told this ball just landed. pic.twitter.com/NDILKStUjy
That same power propelled Huff, Texas' No. 2 prospect, to 28 homers in 2019. His previous career high was 18. The 2016 seventh-round pick crushed 15 dingers in 30 games for Class A Hickory, where he posted a 1.165 OPS. He moved up to Class A Advanced Down East in early May and compiled a .262/.326/.425 slash line in 367 at-bats over the rest of the season.
Huff, 22, earned MVP honors at the All-Star Futures Game after hitting a game-tying, two-run homer off 10th-ranked Rockies prospect
Texas has 56 players in Major League camp.
Joe Bloss is a contributor to MiLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @jtbloss.