![]() 000/.000/.000 slash line during his 11 Serie del Caribe plate appearances. Though, he wasn’t active during the playoffs and ended up supplying the dreaded. He was solid during the LCBP regular season, leading the league with 5 home runs. Everyone paying attention to Walker saw that he had put in a lot of work and was still working on changing his approach at the plate.Ĭaimanes de Barranquilla paid attention to what Walker was doing and he found himself plying his trade for the winter ball club in both Liga Colombiana de Béisbol Profesional and Serie del Caribe. This was genuine progress, the sort that earned Walker AA Player of the Year honors as he helped guide the Milkmen to a championship. 268/.320/.609 in 241 plate appearances with another 22 bombs and only 75 strikeouts. In a pandemic shortened 2020 he put together a fantastic season for the Milkmen. Walker could have skated, but he decided that was not the path for him. Like clockwork, he could have shown up for the season, hit some dingers, and made the fans happy while bringing in bigger gates for Milkmen ownership. The fact of the matter is that Walker could have gotten by for many years in this new role. It was clear that Milkmen fans liked Walker and the story of his return to his home to smash baseballs resonated with fans. Throughout 2019 that’s exactly what Walker did. The Milkmen needed Walker to hit some dingers and keep the fans happy, nothing more than that. He was being brought in to provide a local name to hopefully draw some fans to Routine Field, as it was then known. After a brief and forgettable stint with the Kansas City T-Bones the Milwaukee, Wisconsin native found himself brought into the fold of the American Association’s newest expansion team, the Milwaukee Milkmen. When Walker found himself out of affiliated ball and in the new land of unaffiliated ball he could have coasted on name alone. By 2017, it appeared as if the book had been written on the right-handed slugger a middling fielder with plenty of pop in his bat who makes far too little contact to make the pop worth the roster slot. He of the prodigious power and huge swing who struggled mightily when he finally reached the upper affiliated levels of multiple Major League Baseball clubs. The player with immense talent who simply could not stop striking out. We’ve spent the better part of two years talking about what Adam Brett Walker II has done on the baseball field but exactly what he has done warrants further discussion.īefore we get to present-day Walker it’s important to recognize the Walker who was shuffled out of affiliated ball. ![]() Those stories don’t come along all that often, but when they do they deserve to be talked about. The oddball stories are probably my favorite, the ones that combine elements from many of the story types into one journey. The redemption arc, the wonderful comeback, the career turnaround, overcoming adversity, and more. Everyone loves a good baseball story and boy, are there plenty of baseball story types.
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