Craig Morgan, of the Morgan-Kalman Clinic in Wilmington, Delaware. He missed the 2012 season due to surgery to repair a loose shoulder capsule, which was performed by noted shoulder specialist, Dr. He played for the Single-A Delmarva Shorebirds during the 2010 season. In 2009, he had a 1-2 record with a 4.72 ERA in eight games started. He signed his first professional contract on Saturday, June 27, 2009, and began his career with the Bluefield Orioles of the Appalachian League the following day. He was the first round pick by the Baltimore Orioles and the 5th overall selection in the 2009 Major League Baseball Draft. Going into the 2009 draft, many professional scouts were excited about Hobgood with several teams expressing interest in him in the first round. The only loss during the two-year period came in the 2009 CIF Southern Section Division I playoff game against former Mater Dei standout, Cory Hahn) Hobgood was named the 2009 Gatorade National Baseball Player of the Year after being chosen as the California State Gatorade Baseball Player of the Year following a junior and senior season in which he amassed a 21-1 record on the mound and hit 40 home runs. Along with a 95 mph fastball was a quick bat and powerful swing that produced a national-best 21 home runs to go along with a. The Norco Cougars won 1-0 on a run-scoring single against Cole.Īs a senior, Hobgood had an 11-1 record, 0.92 ERA with 101 strikeouts and just 26 walks in 68.1 innings. Hobgood beat former Orange Lutheran High School senior and current New York Yankees pitcher, Gerrit Cole in a CIF Semi-Final playoff game in which Cole was recorded by multiple sources hitting 99-101 mph and Hobgood 95-97 mph on the radar. He also broke the Riverside County single season high school home run record hitting 21 home runs his senior year.Īs a junior, Hobgood had a perfect 11-0 season, capped off by a pitching performance some professional scouts in Southern California deemed "the best high school pitching duel" they had seen, and which solidified Hobgood's name as a top high school pitching prospect. He was also a baseball and football teammate of former Stanford University running back and former Jacksonville Jaguars tailback, Toby Gerhart.ĭespite missing nearly his entire freshman baseball season after fracturing his ankle in basketball, he set 14 season and career records at Norco, which still stand to date, including Victories, Won-Loss Percentage, Games Pitched, Innings Pitched, Shut-outs, Runs Scored, Homeruns, RBIs, and Slugging Average. Hobgood was a high school baseball teammate of current Minor League Baseball pitcher Brandon Cunniff, and catcher Jake Romanski currently with the Boston Red Sox affiliate. The heavy weightlifting workouts required of linemen were not conducive to pitching, and Hobgood opted to only play one year before giving up football to remain a pitcher. "country strong" freshman, Hobgood played center and power forward in basketball, and was heavily recruited by the football coaches who saw him earning a future college scholarship as an offensive lineman. He led his team to back-to-back playoff appearances in the CIF Southern Section Division I baseball playoffs against Long Beach Poly in 2008 and Santa Ana Mater Dei in 2009. Nicknamed Arizona by a freshman football coach after just having moved from the state, he was a three-sport athlete (baseball, football and basketball), and a four-year varsity baseball player. Matt Hobgood attended Norco High School in Norco, California. He hit a 300' plus home run at age 12 at Victory Lane Sports Park in Glendale, Arizona. At the urging of coaches, he moved over to Little League Baseball at age 11, but soon left to play travel ball after an opposing team refused to face the hard-throwing Hobgood. His father noticed his talent and suggested he sign up to play in a city league. Hobgood's father, Rick, bought him a glove at age eight, and he began spending his days throwing a baseball against the slump block front of his Glendale, Arizona home. Hobgood did not play organized baseball until he was 8 + 1⁄ 2 years old. He was drafted in the first round, 5th overall, of the 2009 Major League Baseball Draft by the Baltimore Orioles. Matthew Micah Hobgood (born August 3, 1990) is a former American professional baseball pitcher.
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