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Scout recalls checking out Trout for '09 Draft

CHICAGO -- Nick Hostetler still can remember scouting Mike Trout prior to the 2009 Draft on a cold Saturday afternoon in New Jersey.

Trout walked three times in the first game of a doubleheader for Millville Senior High School and finished 1-for-3 with a strikeout in the second game.

"You saw a big, strong, thick, athletic kid, and he could run a little bit," said the White Sox assistant scouting director, who is in town preparing for the 2015 Draft, which begins Monday. "But it's a high school bat.

"You could see there were some physical tools.