It’s been a long time since we interviewed Kaleb Cowart. The former Cook Hornet was Mr. All Everything back in 2010. Among the almost innumerable awards he won during high school was the 2010 Gatorade High School Player of the Year. That year, the Anaheim Angels of Los Angeles drafted Cowart in the first round of the Major League Baseball Draft (18th overall). The first rounder should have been fast-tracked to the big leagues. But somehow, almost unexplainably, his career stalled.
After three years in the minors, Cowart ran into big trouble. Like career-ending trouble. He stopped hitting and, instead of moving up the organization, he was moving down. By 2015, he was in single-A ball – not the place for a first round pick five years into his career. Then, that season, something clicked. He and his hitting coach, Brent del Chiaro, went to work. Del Chiaro helped Cowart find his way back and Cowart finished the 2015 season with the big league team. In August of last year, the Angels called Cowart up and he played the remainder of the season in Anaheim. He finished with a home run, four RBI, and a .174 batting average.
Cowart started the 2016 season in the minors again but he’s at AAA and is in line to get back to the majors. It hasn’t been an easy road for Cowart but it’s been a rewarding one. And the beauty of his story is that it isn’t finished yet. Not by a long shot.
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