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Ti’Quan Forbes, in his fourth pro season but still only 20 years old, has come out swinging at Class A Hickory. The former Mr. Baseball from Columbia is batting .353 with five home runs and 12 RBIs through 17 games in the South Atlantic League. He already has more homers than he got all of last season, when he hit four in 120 games with the same Hickory club. He didn’t go deep in either of his first two minor league seasons. Forbes, 6 feet 3, 180 pounds, was a second-round pick by Texas in the 2014 draft. A shortstop at Columbia High, he is now playing third base, a power position. Forbes hit just .251 last year with 24 extra-base hits. If he continues to rake at his current pace, he could get a midseason promotion to high-A Down East in the Carolina League, where former East Mississippi Community College standout LeDarious Clark is now playing. They were teammates in Hickory in 2016.
Clark played high school ball at SE Lauderdale. They eliminated St. Andrews in the playoffs his senior season. I was doing the broadcasts and I remember him as a very good player. He hit a bomb at St. Andrews that was the longest homer I have yet to see at that field. He also had a bad temper and damaged our water fountain in the visitors’ dugout.
I’ve heard other stories about him …