Harry Genth got the idea he wanted to play professional baseball the summer before his junior year at Haverford College while working for a baseball analytics company, writes Sidney Snider for The Philadelphia Inquirer.
“I was sitting there in a sweaty polo shirt plugging away on a computer, collecting all this data, watching all of these players, and started thinking, ‘I can hang with these guys,’” Genth said.
He joined a competitive league in his junior year at Haverford College and made a pact with himself that he would keep playing until the day he showed up and everyone in the field was better than him.
“Once that happens, you’ll be able to live with yourself, because you’ll have done everything you can,” he said.
Then he had a record-shattering senior season playing Division III ball with the Haverford College Athletics.
MLB scouts started noticing the shortstop after he led all of Division III in slugging (1.034), home runs per game (0.59), and RBIs (77).
Genth graduated in May, then signed as an undrafted free agent with the Minnesota Twins. He’s the seventh player from Haverford College Athletics to sign an MLB deal.
Read more about Genth’s time at Haverford College and what awaits him after graduation in The Philadelphia Inquirer.
