Hunter Goodman’s rise can be explained by a brief history of battered-ball omens.
As an emerging college star at Memphis, Goodman once hit a grand slam in three straight games over a single weekend. The harbingers kept coming in pro ball: 34 dingers across the Class-A levels last year, then a Double-A Hartford-record 25 homers and 78 RBIs this year before getting promoted to Triple-A on Aug. 8 — when the super-utility hit a grand slam in his Isotopes’ debut.
With that power performance, the red-hot Rockies prospect’s promotion to the major leagues could come at any moment.