It’s pretty safe to say that the crowd gathered outside Constellation Field in Sugar Land, Texas Saturday night won’t be for the crawfish boil and Mardi Gras bead giveaway…it’ll be for the guy on the mound.
That’s right, former NBA All-Star Tracy McGrady is set to make his debut for the Sugarland Skeeters when they square off against the Somerset Patriots.
According to the team, McGrady will start the game on the bump, but will be kept to a limited pitch count. The 34-year-old McGrady officially made the Opening Day roster as a Spring Training invitee. He gave up three hits in his only inning of work last month.
Now, he’s the fun part.
When McGrady shows up at the park Saturday, he won’t even be the tallest player in the joint. At six-foot-nine, Patriots reliever Jon Hunton is an inch taller than both his teammate Gary Moran and McGrady. Should Moran start the game against “T-Mac” (and it is possible…his turn in the rotation is up), you’d be looking two six-foot-eight starting pitchers. I’m not sure where that ranks as far as the tallest pitching matchup in the history of the Atlantic League, but we’re not far off from what constitutes the “tallest” in the Majors.
Almost exactly five years ago, six-foot-ten Randy Johnson beat six-foot-nine Daniel Cabrera. The pair measure a combined 163 inches…one more than the combined heights of Cabrera and Mark Hendrickson from September 2004.
For the record, McGrady and Moran (should he start) add up to 160 inches.
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