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Luckily, they have. After a strong summer swinging a wood bat (.327-8-36) in the New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL), Hendricks is once again considered a draftable commodity, now as a hitter...
...People are looking at him as a first baseman, as a hitter,” Walsh says. “His switch-hitting ability and power from both sides is something everybody’s interested in. And he swings the wood bat real well. There’s some interest there, and he’s got to keep proving it on the field, but his name’s well known...
Like most Texas boys, Hendricks swung his first bat soon after he said his first word. Little Trey was only two-years-old when he became captivated with his high-school age neighbors playing catch regularly in the yard nearby...
...later, he was on his first organized team, a four-year-old playing with six- and seven-year-old kids. But being the youngest never bothered him. Art was a college baseball umpire at the time, and his son often tagged along to the ballpark. Soon Trey was a bat boy for the University of Houston, sitting in the same dugout as current Brewers pitcher Shane Nance...
...Former Houston Coach] Dr. Bragg Stockton, who just passed away, was probably the biggest influence on my baseball life other than my dad,” Hendricks says. “I always went to all of his camps, so I was his bat boy. He let me come out there whenever I wasn’t playing, and I got to hang around college players...