Baseball is a safer route than football, but its not the right choice for Kyler Murray
Let’s get one thing straight right off the, um, bat: Kyler Murray’s decision about whether to play center field or quarterback is not a battle between baseball and football, writ large. It can seem that way, what with Major League Baseball officials reportedly sitting down with the Oakland Athletics prospect and Heisman Trophy winner to sway him to their side. But it’s not.
Keep a few things in mind. This past June, when the Athletics selected Murray, a center fielder from Oklahoma, with the ninth pick in the MLB draft, he was coming off a football season in which he was a backup to the Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback, undersized at that.
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