Twenty-four is a ripe age to be entering your first season of professional baseball. This short clip below (from which you can enjoy the animated gif above) looks like it's meant to be funny ha-ha, but it's also funny I had noticed Mangum was a church-going boy, and his Twitter does contain a Bible verse, James 4:7, which reads:But this wasn't enough to make me think he was necessarily the dreaded "not down with the gays." “Actually, I don’t just want to be playing, I need to be playing.”The 2020 baseball season is on hold.

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The early results have been promising, Mangum says.Mangum, hitting for the Brooklyn Cyclones, last summer.After State’s 2019 season ended June 20 in the College World Series, Mangum spent the rest of the summer playing for the Mets’ rookie league team, the Brooklyn Cyclones, in the New York-Penn League.

His swing, he says, is now more level instead of swinging down at the ball.

There are safety concerns, of course. Warm. He’s on the clock, and he knows it.“I just want to go play baseball,” Mangum said Thursday morning, before taking some swings in the batting cages at Jackson Prep.

He absolutely loves the sport and plays it as hard as it can be played.

And while he’s never going to be a home run slugger, some of his line drives could become gappers and some of those singles could become doubles and triples.He has tinkered with his swing, working with both his father and with Mets hitting instructor Trey Hannam. Mangum’s career is on hold.

For Mangum, who turned 24 on March 8, time is of the essence. “I really hit it well.”All that – and the added muscle – had him more than eager to begin his first full year of pro baseball, which is currently in a holding pattern.Major League owners and players are squabbling, of course, over how this season will unfold and how the reduced revenue will be divided.

He had hoped to begin this season with the Mets’ Port St. Lucie ballclub in high Class A League baseball.And now he knows there might not be any minor league season at all. A graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi with a bachelor’s in journalism, Rick has worked for the Monroe (La.)

132 Followers, 72 Following, 35 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Tristan John Mangum (@tristan_m_) He can’t stand to be idle.He began this spring at the New York Mets’ Major League camp as an invited non-Major League roster player.

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Twenty-four is a ripe age to be entering your first season of professional baseball.

He was sports editor of Hattiesburg American, executive director of the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame.