re players rushed to majors in article hydra gatech edu re prism gatech edu russell earnest writes in article apr holos uucp lbr holos uucp len reed writes in article c hq o g p tss com hanson tss com hanson loo writes didn t bob horner go straight from arizona state univ to the atlanta braves i remember he had one great month hitting dingers and then the next i heard he was in japan a month well he did have a short career compared to what one might have expected for such a highly touted prospect due to being injury prone overweight and having no work ethic but he certainly did not suffer from being rushed to the bigs sorry len this is exactly how he suffered from being rushed to the bigs being overweight and having no work ethic leading to being injury prone with nothing to loose might have been corrected in richmond did you intend a smiley after your comment if i remember correctly which is always in doubt horner s signing with the braves was contingent on starting in atlanta i think he could have gone back to arizona st for one more year if he hadn t signed anyhow the braves did try to send him to richmond once it lead to a week long walkout methinks horner had no work ethic before he was drafted and minor league play wouldn t have helped but his raw talent would have gotten him into the ml and it did keep him there for a while until he started falling on his wrists eric too lazy to update his sig roush
