PostSportsPlus: Garrett Wilson and Brett Baty lit up Texas as childhood friends. Now they’re trying to take over New York
The possible future Mets third baseman was under center, and the future No. 1 Jets receiver was out wide.
Garrett Wilson, Baty was learning, could do everything on a football field. Including racking up steals, previously a stat that belonged on the basketball court.“I was like, ‘Oh, he just threw an interception. Wait, Garrett ended up with that?’” Clint said recently over the phone. “He’s in the end zone with the ball, touchdown.
Wilson is a finalist for the NFL’s Rookie of the Year award. Baty, the Mets’ second-ranked prospect after getting his feet wet in the majors last season, is entering Mets camp with a shot to win the third-base job, one of the major subplots of spring training. Theirs was the best of three Lake Travis teams, Brett Baty said, and they trended to the top of the league as Baty and Wilson learned each other on the field.courtesy of Clint Baty
Also a standout in football and basketball as a teenager in Texas, Brett Baty chose to focus on baseball in high school, and was drafted in the first round by the Mets in 2019.Kenny, Garrett’s father, was a star on the court at Davidson, and Garrett says basketball was his first love. Basketball loved him, too. Garrett was a varsity player immediately. Brett played JV as a freshman before joining his former receiver sophomore year.
Wilson was the 2017-18 Central Texas high school athlete of the year, as voted by the Austin American-Statesman. Baty won the award the following year, though he gave up football and focused on baseball and basketball.Instead, Baty was a first-round pick of the Mets in 2019, which is where their paths diverged. Wilson, who was headed back to Ohio for college to star for the Buckeyes under Ryan Day, texted a congratulations and told Baty, “You the man.
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