359 with 41 home runs and 174 RBI in 168 games. The younger Walker played baseball, basketball and football before settling on baseball, his true love. His dad played one year in the NFL as a replacement player with the Minnesota Vikings and currently coaches at Concordia University. Both his parents were great athletes at Carthage College. The 24-year-old Milwaukee native has been around sports his entire life. I got lucky the two times I faced him, but I definitely witnessed him getting some off our guys." "I think I struck him out once, and he grounded out to first the other time. We had heard that he was kind of raw and that there were different ways you could pitch him, but if you made a mistake he would definitely hit it. Of their previous encounters, Barnes said, "He had the power back then and could swing it. The two also faced one another this past season in the Southern League. The two played college ball in the Atlantic Sun conference, Walker for Jacksonville University, and Barnes for Florida Gulf Coast. Roughly 60 percent of those assigned to the league have made the big leagues. This past season, 27 former first-round draft picks played in the AFL, long considered the graduate school for top prospects.
Prospects from the Royals, Yankees, Rangers, Cardinals and Brewers played for the Saguaros. Walker and six other Minnesota prospects were joined by players, coaches and trainers from the Tigers, Indians, Red Sox and Giants for the 24 th season of the AFL.
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21, and Scottsdale hung on 6-4 to win their third championship in 24 seasons.Ī former Milwaukee Lutheran Red Knight, Walker was 2-4 with 3 RBI to win his third championship in the past two and a half years of professional baseball. The scene played out at Scottsdale Stadium on Saturday, Nov. With two outs and runners on first and third in the top of the eighth inning, Adam Brett Walker II hooked a double down the left field line off Jacob Barnes, a pitching prospect for the Milwaukee Brewers.īoth runners scored, and the Scottsdale Scorpions took a 6-3 lead over the Surprise Saguaros in the Arizona Fall League (AFL) championship game.
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