George Arias Jr. has been on the Arizona baseball team for four seasons, but it wasn’t until this week that he had occasion to speak with reporters about himself, his locally famous father and his time with the Wildcats.
The Tucson native made the most of his first media scrum. He also showed that, if baseball doesn’t work out, he might have a future as a stand-up comic.
“I became a pitcher because I had too much power as a hitter, and the coaches told me, like, it was unfair to keep hitting,” said Arias, a junior right-hander and the son of former UA slugger George Arias Sr.