Greatest 21 Days Baseball Profiles

Going into the 1990 draft, one scout assessed Pennsauken catcher Mike Patrizi to The Philadelphia Inquirer . "Patrizi is an athlete," the unnamed scout told The Inquirer . "He has a good body, he can run, he's strong, he has good arm strength, he has power and he has nice athletic tools." Whether it was from that scout or another, scouts from the Mets saw enough in Patrizi to to select him in the fourth round of that year's draft. He went on to a career that spanned four seasons . He topped out ta high-A. He's since used his body and strength in an arguably more important profession, in a career firefighting . Patrizi's baseball career began that year in 1990, taken by the Mets in the fourth round out of Pennsauken High in New Jersey. Upon being drafted by the Mets, Patrizi called it "the greatest thing I could have heard," according to The Inquirer . "It was great because the one team I love is the Mets," Patrizi told The Inqu...