When the Salt Lake Bees released their opening day roster on Monday, the first thing that caught my eye wasn't a name - but a player's height. Sounds weird, but when you see 7'1 you can't help but think how ridiculously tall that is for a baseball player.
Needless to say, Loek (pronounced 'Luke') Van Mil is the tallest professional baseball player in the world. How crazy is that? He's a right-handed pitcher who was born in Oss, Netherlands.
Is he any good? Yes. Check out his career stats
HERE. But like many tall pitchers in the past (Jon Rauch, Chris Young, Randy Johnson, Eric Hillman), Van Mil is a late bloomer.
Now the 27-year-old is just one call-up away from the Majors. And yes, I made sure to tell him there is a game called basketball that he'd be pretty good at. But he told me basketball wasn't his thing.
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