former major league baseball outfielder bubba thompson According to AL.com’s Creg Stephenson, she is attending the University of South Alabama. Stephenson wrote that he will join the Jaguars football team as a backup.
Thompson has not officially announced his retirement from baseball, but he posted a video of himself throwing a football at a South Alabama facility on social media with the caption, “We support you!” Thompson, a native of Mobile, was in high school. Play quarterback. (Stephenson noted that he was teammates with future South Alabama receiver Jalen Tolbert, who spent the past three years with the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys.) He committed to the University of Alabama Made a baseball commitment, signing with the Rangers as a first-round 2017 draft pick.
Thompson, who hits right-handed, has been praised by scouts for his athleticism and bat speed. The long-standing question is whether he can make enough contact to be a fourth or fifth outfielder. Thompson never really did that. Over the past three years, he has played in 259 games in Major League Baseball (MLB), 32% of which were fans. He bounced around the league via waivers last winter. In May, the Reds successfully removed him from the 40-man roster. Thompson hit .232/.264/.289 in 57 games in Double-A with a strikeout rate of 28.5%. After the season, he was eligible for minor league free agency.
If Thompson left baseball entirely, he would finish with a .232/.273/.295 slash line in 109 games between Texas and Cincinnati. He was an asset on base, stealing 27 bags on 32 attempts.
