{"id":13064,"date":"2023-02-01T21:25:47","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T21:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/tom-brady-could-have-been-one-of-the-greatest-catchers-of-all-time-in-mlb\/"},"modified":"2023-02-01T21:25:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T21:25:47","slug":"tom-brady-could-have-been-one-of-the-greatest-catchers-of-all-time-in-mlb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/tom-brady-could-have-been-one-of-the-greatest-catchers-of-all-time-in-mlb\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Brady &#8216;could have been one of the greatest catchers of all time&#8217; in MLB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em__fp gnt_em_vp__tp gnt_em__el\" aria-label=\"Video - Tom Brady retires (again) but will always be regarded as the GOAT of the NFL\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady greeted New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge in the tunnels at Raymond James Stadium ahead of a game in December. <\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;Would you like to play tight end tonight?&#8221; Brady then jokingly asked the judges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">However, some think that it might have been the other way around. Brady retired Wednesday as the greatest football player of all time. But was Brady a great baseball player?<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Kevin Malone, former baseball general manager of the Montreal Expos and Los Angeles Dodgers, told Bleacher Report that Brady &#8220;could have been one of the greatest catchers of all time.&#8221; bottom.  &#8220;His first love was football,&#8221; Malone said. <\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">That didn&#8217;t stop Malone from drafting the left-handed hitting catcher out of Junipero Serra High School in San Mateo, California, with the 507th overall pick in the 1995 MLB Draft. <\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong>Super Bowl Central:<\/strong> Super Bowl 57 odds, Eagles vs Chiefs matchups, stats and more<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong>Tom Brady comments: <\/strong>NFL icon says he &#8216;completely left&#8217; a year after initial retirement announcement<\/p>\n<figure class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_img\"><img class=\"gnt_em_img_i\" style=\"height:372px\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/a3c92ee2cc70fc9541ad6b4d4d70d5d07b269a9f\/c=0-117-2100-1298\/local\/-\/media\/USATODAY\/usatsports\/2015\/04\/15\/e26b1c3697c69410730f6a706700fa00.jpg?width=660&amp;height=372&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" data-gl-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/a3c92ee2cc70fc9541ad6b4d4d70d5d07b269a9f\/c=0-117-2100-1298\/local\/-\/media\/USATODAY\/usatsports\/2015\/04\/15\/e26b1c3697c69410730f6a706700fa00.jpg?width=1320&amp;height=744&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp 2x\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tom Brady throws the first pitch as Patriots head coach Bill Belichick looks on before the Boston Red Sox's 2015 home opener.\"\/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Brady went to Michigan for football and the rest is history, but let&#8217;s play a &#8220;what if&#8221; game. Could he dominate baseball the way he does soccer?<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"gnt_ar_b_mt\">Did Tom Brady play baseball in high school?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Brady attended Junipero Serra High School and was an athlete who played three sports: soccer, baseball, and basketball.<\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">According to a San Francisco Examiner article published in 1995, Brady made a &#8220;difficult transition&#8221; from first baseman to catcher.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;You have to give Tommy a lot of credit,&#8221; coach Pete Jensen told the examiner at the time. &#8220;He really struggled in the first half of the season. He couldn&#8217;t buy a hit. It was below .200, but he really came back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_anc\" id=\"gnt_atomsnc\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-method=\"loadAnc\" aria-label=\"Newsletter signup form\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Brady played for the national team for two years, hitting .311 and hitting eight home runs, according to MLB. It was enough to get noticed. <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"gnt_ar_b_mt\">Was Brady drafted in the MLB?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">yes. Brady was selected by the Montreal Expos in the 18th round of the 1995 MLB Draft. Former Expo scout John Hughes says the club offered Brady &#8220;in the bottom of the second (round), near the top of the third&#8221; to lure him to the baseball diamond. <\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;I felt that if you offered him that amount, he would be a future big league player,&#8221; Hughes told Sports Illustrated in 2017. <\/p>\n<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_fb\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-method=\"loadFacebook\" data-v-src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TomBrady\/photos\/a.233362006704957\/1148563968518085\/?type=3\" aria-label=\"Facebook Embedded Post\"><\/aside>\n<h2 class=\"gnt_ar_b_mt\">Could Tom Brady have made it in MLB?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Scouts seem to think so. <\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;He was a very athletic young man. A big kid with a great face with a major league look. Yes, we saw faces,&#8221; Malone told Bleacher Report. &#8220;He was athletic. had a strong body in but had room to grow.As a scout the first thing you see is just the body.the type of body,the athleticism and the type of face he has.I&#8217;m a little bit weird may sound like.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Hughes said Brady &#8220;had all the intangibles&#8221; to go pro: &#8220;He could throw left-handed power.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"gnt_ar_b_mt\">Was Tom Brady glad he chose soccer over baseball?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">If his soon-to-be Hall of Fame career isn&#8217;t enough to convince you he made the right choice, take him at his word.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;I was lucky enough to be selected by the Expos in the 1995 MLB Draft,&#8221; Brady wrote in a photo.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"gnt_em_gl_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/01\/29\/USAT\/551bfad5-b87f-4490-9b8a-a6b24731011e-008_USATSI_17516096.jpg.JPG?crop=2303,1296,x0,y86&amp;width=660&amp;height=372&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" data-gl-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/01\/29\/USAT\/551bfad5-b87f-4490-9b8a-a6b24731011e-008_USATSI_17516096.jpg.JPG?crop=2303,1296,x0,y86&amp;width=1320&amp;height=744&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp 2x\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\"\/><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/__i\/rss\/rd\/articles\/CBMid2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnVzYXRvZGF5LmNvbS9zdG9yeS9zcG9ydHMvbmZsLzIwMjMvMDIvMDEvdG9tLWJyYWR5LWNvdWxkdmUtYmVlbi1vbmUtZ3JlYXRlc3QtY2F0Y2hlcnMtZXZlci1tbGIvMTExNjQ2NzEwMDIv0gEA?oc=5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady greeted New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge in the tunnels at Raymond James Stadium ahead of a game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","two-columns"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/e26b1c3697c69410730f6a706700fa00.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}