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Joey Gathright is Amazing, Part II

March 26, 2008

Yowzers. This is probably the most athletic play we’re going to see on the basepaths this season. Note how the act of jumping over a human being doesn’t even slow him down when he touches down. Joey is such an exciting player, a freak on the basepaths and able to cover so much ground in the outfield, and I’d like to see more of him. That .266 career batting average has prevented him from reaching 80 games in any season so far, but with a .307 BA and .371 OBP in 74 games last year perhaps we’ll be seeing the 26-year-old do more of this in 2008:

We shouldn’t be too surprised by Mr. Gathright’s leaping ability at this point though if you recall this clip we posted last April. He is the man:

Posted by Andrew Thell on Mar. 26, 2008 at 7:08 pm in MLB

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