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Features: Texas State slugger Tanner Hill is turning back the clock to the days of Paul Goldschmidt

By JOE VOZZELLI
Sports Editor

Sitting in Ty Harrington's office about 12 months ago, Tanner Hill heard something that sounded absolutely crazy at the time.

Even now, it's still hard to fathom.

After Hill's well-timed power surge at the end of last season — the San Marcos native's ah-ha moment — Jeremy Fikac, who was conducting the Bobcats' end-of-year meetings alongside former hitting coach Mike Silva and Harrington, compared the slugger to that first baseman who wore a No. 37 jersey.

"He (Fikac) said, 'You know Tanner, there really is no difference in the power that you and Paul Goldschmidt have,'" Hill recalled.