Georgia baseball star Charlie Condon is only two home runs away from breaking Georgia's career home run record.
ATHENS, Ga. -- If then-Georgia coach Scott Stricklin hadn't received a call from a friend in October of 2020, Bulldogs star Charlie Condon might have been playing quarterback at a Division III school instead of producing one of the most memorable seasons in college baseball history.
Four years later, the prospect almost everyone missed can't seem to miss at the plate. Condon leads NCAA hitters in batting average , home runs , slugging percentage , total bases , hits and home runs per game . "I think more than anything with Charlie, his story was just that he's a really late bloomer," said his father, Jim Condon."He was a late puberty kid and one of the youngest in his class. He really wasn't ready to be seen. He'll tell you he has no regrets about people passing over him.
Stricklin's plan was for Condon to redshirt as a freshman in 2022 and spend much of his time in the weight room trying to gain strength. "It's almost like the old-school football coaches who redshirt a kid and see what happens," Stricklin said."He put on 15 or 20 pounds and it all just clicked at the same time.""He's just a very, very humble kid," Stricklin said."He just kind of chuckled to himself. He's obviously very talented, but he has an extremely high work ethic and extremely high character.
"It was never a real possibility that I wanted to get in the portal and go anywhere else," Condon said."Whether it was this coaching staff or not, the university was the only place that gave me a chance out of high school. It was the university that had given me all the time and resources and put so much into my development. I couldn't turn my back on that."
"It's unbelievable when you look at his numbers. Now granted, they're smaller sample sizes, but when you look at his numbers against 95 mph-plus pitching or against special breaking balls, his numbers are actually better. He's such a rare combination of size, power and the ability to hit. You hate to throw around a colloquialism, but he's kind of a generational college player."have the No.
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