Switch from outfield works out well for Gordon
RedHawk's career coming together since he's been able to pursue his first love: pitching

 
By Matt Patterson
Published: July 14, 2008

Brian Gordon 's career in baseball has been part frustration, part odyssey. But for the 29-year-old RedHawks pitcher, everything is coming together in the way he had hoped when he was a high school.

Gordon was drafted in the fifth round of the 1997 draft by Arizona as an outfielder. Gordon stayed in that role for nearly 10 seasons. But life in the outfield wasn't something he enjoyed. It never felt right to him.


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