With the MLB Draft coming up, the Stanford Daily's Do-Hyoung Park talked with two-sport star Zach Hoffpauir about his plans. A top-10 round prospect in baseball, Hoffpauir doubled as a key member of the Stanford football team's secondary and still has one year of eligibility remaining in each sport.
Below is the first four paragraph's for the May 14 feature. To read the entire article, click the link to the right.
STANFORD DAILY - It’s impossible to ignore the decorated history of baseball-football two-sport athletes at Stanford when the names atop the list are as distinguished as John Elway, John Lynch, Toby Gerhart and Tyler Gaffney.
What do those four Cardinal legends have in common? All four went from being Stanford stars to playing in the NFL — choosing professional football over careers in baseball.
It’s time to add Zach Hoffpauir to that list — but it looks like he’s going to be the exception to the rule, and come this June’s MLB Draft, he’ll look to become one of few Stanford two-sport stars to select baseball over football.
“I’d say that if I wanted to play pro baseball, this would be the year to do it,” Hoffpauir said. “I’m very solid — I’m 100 percent signable, and I want to sign this year. If I get what I want, then I’ll go.”