East Carolina ace Trey Yesavage (Shotgun Spratling)

GSA Spotlight: East Carolina’s Yesavage has had a unique path to stardom

Trey Yesavage – who grew up on his family’s 100-acre farm in Boyertown, Pennsylvania – spent much of his youth playing paintball, hunting for deer, and riding ATVs in the summer and snowmobiles in the winter.

It was not uncommon to find Yesavage covered in mud, head to toe, while playing with his younger brothers, Cole and Chase, and their cousins, Andrew, Collin, and Brandon Shane.

Yesavage was also pretty good at football – offensive tackle and defensive end – but he mostly rode the bench in baseball.

Everything changed, however, when he attended a baseball camp at age 14. He was clocked by a radar gun for the[…]