Good morning, Camden Chatters.
Step aside, Mike Trout. Austin Hays is your 2021 AL MVP. You heard it here first.
We’re just six days away from real baseball, and if the 25-year-old O’s outfielder could bottle his spring training performance and carry it to Baltimore with him, he’d be in for a spectacular season indeed.
Hays was already red-hot at the plate entering yesterday’s game. But last night’s exhibition outing against the Pirates, the second and final spring game aired by MASN, was Hays’ most outstanding yet. At the plate, Hays was a one-man wrecking crew, smacking three extra-base hits — including a go-ahead three-run homer in the fourth — and falling just a single shy of the cycle.