Earlier this month, Amir Garrett, a former top 100 recruit that played for St. John’s and transferred to Cal-St. Northridge, made the decision to give up basketball for good.
The 6-foot-5 left-hander is instead focusing on a baseball career that saw him get drafted by the Cincinnati Reds and given a $1 million contract.
And based on the way he has been playing of late, it appears to be the right decision. Garrett recently topped the list of Baseball America’s prospect hot sheet, as he is now playing the best baseball of his career. He’s 22 years old and he’s still playing for Cincinnati’s low-A ball team, the Dayton Dragons, but mowing down hitters as a left-handed pitcher for a team that has already invested seven figures in his future is probably a better decision than chasing NBA dreams as a basketball player in the Big West.
Here’s what Baseball America had to say about him:
To read more about Garrett’s path to becoming a baseball star, click here.