Watch: Former Tennessee football player shows off baseball skills
Maybe former Tennessee Vols offensive lineman Cade Mays should've been a dual-sport athlete during his time on Rocky Top. Mays showed off his baseball skills this week during a team bonding event with the Carolina Panthers, the team that drafted the former Vol earlier this spring. Check it out: That's a pretty good swing for […]
Maybe former Tennessee Vols offensive lineman Cade Mays should've been a dual-sport athlete during his time on Rocky Top.
Mays showed off his baseball skills this week during a team bonding event with the Carolina Panthers, the team that drafted the former Vol earlier this spring.
Check it out:
That's a pretty good swing for a guy who spends most of his time blocking opposing defenders. Mays keeps the knob of the bat toward the catcher while he's in the launch position, gets great rotation, and stays inside the baseball. That's a legit baseball swing.
Of course, there's a reason for that — Mays' first love was actually baseball. But he quit the sport so he could focus on football in high school. That's a decision the Knoxville native regrets.
"Baseball was probably my favorite sport growing up," said Mays to GoVols247 before last season. "I love baseball.”
“I played on a travel team for like eight years, and we were really good," added Mays. "We won a bunch of huge tournaments and stuff. I loved travel ball. I played like 80 games every summer for six, seven, eight years.”
Mays believes that athletes should play every sport they can until they get to college.
"You know, you're gonna get to a day where you can't play anything, or you can play only one sport," said Mays. "Play everything you can for as long as you can. And once you get to college, you can focus on your on the sport that's your plan. But play everything you can until then.”
Mays also told 247Sports last fall that he hadn't swung a bat since he was 15 years old.
Based on that swing, it doesn't look like he's missed a beat.
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