ARLINGTON, TEXAS - In the months ahead, they and all of baseball would have ample access to Paul Goldschmidt´s numbers as a junior at Texas State - the school-record homers, his thundering OPS, the 88 RBIs, his weight, his height, the vitals - but a Diamondbacks´ area scout wanted his boss to have something earlier than other teams: access to Paul Goldschmidt. So he invited both of them to lunch. In January 2009, before a preseason scrimmage, Goldschmidt and a teammate made the 4-minute drive from the Bobcats´ ballpark to a Texas Roadhouse restaurant in San Marcos, Texas, to meet scout Trip Couch and Tom Allison, Arizona´s scouting director. In reports Couch had filed about Texas State´s...
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