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Kieboom learning 2B for quicker path to Majors

2019 MLB.com Top Prospects: Carter Kieboom impresses scouts with plus bat speed and loose wrists as part of a balanced right-handed swing

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WASHINGTON -- The last time Carter Kieboom played second base regularly, he was the smallest player on the team.

"Had the weakest arm," Kieboom said. "So had to play second base."

That's how it goes in elementary school, but not since those youth baseball days had the 21-year-old Kieboom, now 6-foot-2 and 190 pounds, been a second baseman -- until this winter.