Olivia Rook/Corpus Christi Hooks
FRISCO, Texas — On June 16, Colton Shaver was promoted to the Double-A Corpus Christi Hooks.
It was a nice reward for the Riverton native and BYU product who posted an .829 OPS in 58 games for High Single-A Fayetteville (North Carolina), where he was one of seven Woodpeckers named to the 2019 Carolina League All-Star Game.
But Shaver, 23, a 39th-round pick by Houston in the 2017 MLB draft, was relishing his promotion to the Texas League for another reason: the opportunity to face good friend and fellow Riverton native Joe Barlow — who was promoted to the Frisco RoughRiders earlier this season and to Triple-A Nashville earlier this week — for the first time as a professional.