Montaous Walton: Future big leaguer with big dreams
It was my honor to have recently met Milwaukee native, Montaous Walton, who has been signed to a minor league contract with an invitation to Major League camp by the Minnesota Twins.
Walton blew me away with his bright smile and positive attitude about life. We talked about forty five minutes and Montaous could not stop busting-out with this huge smile and laughing. He would apologize but he couldn’t hold in the excitement – he was a really cool dude…just a down-to-earth nice guy.
Walton is a converted second baseman from centerfield whose specialty is his blazing speed, cat-like reactions and instincts when stealing bases, versatility of playing several positions, and knack for getting on base.
He was an undrafted free agent playing at the Playball Baseball Academy until Minnesota Twins scout, Billy Corrigan, was overwhelmed by his 6.3 sec 60 yard dash, 30 stolen bases and dominance at the Academy. He is being compared to the young superstar B.J. Upton of the Tampa Bay Rays. What a comparison!!!
This is Walton’s first invitation to Major League camp and is projected to play in the Majors in the 2011 season. Note that it is rare that a young baseballer would ascend to the Majors is such a short time frame and even more rare that an un-drafted free agent would be projected to play in the Majors after only one year Minor League service.
Walton, 21 years old, went to Madison High School and played baseball all four years there and informed me that MPS has a good baseball program. He stated, “Since I was 10 yrs old I always had passion and love for baseball…growing up in my neighborhood everybody was into basketball and everybody would always say what’s up with this guy with the baseball glove.”
After high school, he attended division 1 Eastern Michigan University where he played two years and had 22 stolen bases his sophomore year. He became home-sick and transferred to UW-Whitewater where he waited for his opportunity but going into his last year he couldn’t take the risk of not playing consistently and moved to Florida and attended the Playball Baseball Academy.
Walton is dedicating his baseball career to his Uncle, Henry Walton, who died of cancer in 2008 and influenced him to whom he is today.
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Montaous Walton is a big liar. Montaous is not 21, he will be 27 years old on April 18, 2011. He was born 4-18-84. He never played for Eastern Michigan nor Whitewater. He never was drafted, Doesn’t have an agent. It is all false. He is making all of this information up.
Oh my! I heard that too. I didn’t believe it until I saw his picture. He was pretty good in high school but he never played college ball. He tried to make the Olive Harvey Community College team in Chicago, IL but was cut. He never played for Eastern Michigan. In fact, he wasn’t there longer than a semester. He attempted to go to USI in Indiana but was kicked out of school because of grades, had to go to MATC (a community college in Milwaukee) to get his grades up, and then go to Whitewater. He never played for any of the schools.
both of you guys are obviously hating on this young man because he went somewhere and actually achieved his dream, thats not fair how you guys (bloggers) try to attack a young man because he is somewhere where you are not. thats crazy, but than again the best get criticized and hated on especially success is involved. even mike jordan got hated on and he still is the best. so for you two haters just watch this young man blossom and keep doing what he is doing!
i know montaous personally and have coached him throughout his youth and as a matter of fact i still speak to him daily and i know for a fact he has become very successful im sure he is out of town working hard on the field as he has always done. true enough montaous was not drafted he signed as non drafted free agent recently with a team and i must say i am proud of him so when i see the negative and envy comment about him it disturbs me but then again like i said i know him personally and he is a hard worker and a success.
This article is one of the funniest things that I have seen in awhile. Montaous never was drafted, was not an unsigned free agent, or never even went to eastern michigan. He was cut from whitewater. I can’t believe that the press even would think that this story was real. If you look at any minor league rosters, or even college rosters you won’t find his name anywhere. not even the archives. where you will find it is in a bunch of message boards. this kid, who i read was a journalism major, probably posted about himself on multiple sites and some how got people to believe this. if you disagree just try and find his name on a real website of a sports team college or pro.
dude is very talented and negative comments come with the territory as well as positive comments
Monty went to college in UWP and did play baseball . Plus he did play in white I went to college with him so stop haten
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