Senzel off to hot start in pro career

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CINCINNATI — This has indeed been a crazy summer for 2016 Reds first-round Draft pick Nick Senzel.

The overall No. 2 selection from the University of Tennessee, Senzel went from finishing college baseball, to the intensity of the Draft process, playing short season Minor League ball at Billings for 10 games before arriving at his current spot at Class A Dayton.

“It’s been pretty fast paced. There hasn’t been a lot of time to catch my breath,” Senzel said recently on the MLBPipeline.com podcast. “The journey has been exciting so far. Since you’re playing every day, it’s pretty easy to focus on the baseball aspect of things. You wake up and you go to the field. Once you’re on the field, your mind takes over on the baseball aspect of things.”

Senzel, 21, is the Reds’ No. 1 prospect according to MLBPipeline.com and is off to a good start to his pro career. He entered Monday batting .309/.400/.545 with seven home runs and 26 RBIs …

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