Antron Seiber - where are you now?

i live in madisonville, nice little town

Played against both of them in high school......in baseball.

Toefield was one hell of a baseball player too. Seiber brought the heat on the mound (low to mid 90's) but had absolutely no offspeed stuff.

Last I heard he was back in Indy not doing much of anything.

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Toefield was one hell of a baseball player too.

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You should have seen Perilloux(sp?) play high school baseball!!!

He hit a liner that bounced right beside the shortstop, and then hit the left center wall...in the air...like off the bounce from short. When the outfielder had gotten the ball in, RP was standing on 3rd. He absolutley FLEW around the bases. It would have been a slide in double for anyone else. The kids an athletic beast.

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He hit a liner that bounced right beside the shortstop, and then hit the left center wall...in the air...like off the bounce from short. When the outfielder had gotten the ball in

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Little League park?

Damn.

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Wow. I guess that was worth it. Skip out on the best years of your life in college to ride around in a bus on the minor league circuit only to go back and live in the 1 stop light town you started in. Wasted talent and bad decisions can cripple your life and end your career. What could have been?
You think he has any regrets?

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The link says he was making 300K per year when he was playing in 2006. He also probably made at around 2 million over an 7 year period with his 3rd round signing bonus. Not a bad way to make a living. Get paid to ride around on a bus and play a game.

After reading the story in the advocate today about the last 25 years of Dirty Dozen players it made me wonder whatever happened to Seiber... It looks like he played a few games in the majors for the Cubs and made his way into this Peter Gammons article from the year 2000. [link=(Link)]https://www.hostultra.com/~mlsb/p2801.html[/link] to his stats through 2006.

Toe isn't any fictional character
Several players at the Rookie Orientation program in Leesburg, Va. Friday asked if the Toe Nash story was some kind of Sidd Finch fiction. "Are you kidding?" Olympic hero and Brewers rookie pitcher Ben Sheets told several players. "I've known Toe Nash since he was about 10. He is a monster, and he's a natural because he's never really had any coaching. He is the biggest baseball player I've ever seen. If he walked into this place, he'd scare the daylights out of every one of you."

Devil Rays scout Benny Latino found Nash, but there's another Louisiana superman he wished hadn't gotten away from him. That is Antron Seiber, a great high school quarterback from Independence, La. the Red Sox took in the 1999 draft after Tampa Bay couldn't resist taking Carl Crawford in the second round when he slid.

"If he'd (Seiber) gone to LSU to play football -- which he was going to do, only he loves baseball -- Josh Booty wouldn't have been playing, because Antron Seiber is Michael Vick," says Latino. "He can absolutely fly. We worked him out and he ran a 6.38, 60 (yard dash).

"(Cross-checker) Stan Meeks thought his stopwatch must have malfunctioned. Seiber then ran a 6.29. He played for my summer team, and the first time he tried to bat lefty, he hit the ball out of the park. We didn't think anyone else knew about him, but Joe Mason of the Red Sox, who knew a coach in that town, did a great job in getting him because Antron Seiber can be a star."

And that isn't only Latino's opinion. "When I watched him," says Tampa Bay scouting director Dan Jennings, "all I could think of is Vick."