BALTIMORE — Logan Webb was a teenage pitching prospect, just a couple months removed from his high school graduation, when he received his unofficial welcome to professional baseball.
It was not a gracious welcome.
And Matt Chapman delivered it.
Webb was pitching for the Giants’ instructional league team in Arizona in the fall of 2014. It was a scrimmage against the A’s at old Indian School Park on the practice field that featured the same dimensions as the Giants’ waterfront ballpark in San Francisco — complete with the deepest expanse of Triples Alley in right-center field that measured 421 feet at the time.
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