Court to Diamond: Squires Shares What the Basketball-to-Baseball Transition is Like

(photo by Nick George / The Chronicle)


Just like that, Griffin Squires has gone from the basketball court to the baseball field.

Him and a lot of other kids.

Squires shared what it’s like for him, as a player, to go from one sport to the next with no break. For all of those kids who like to kick back and have a day to play video games, stop reading.

“I hate sitting around the house, even if it’s for one day,” Squires said. “Coaches say, ‘You gotta take a day off.’

“Heck no. We have Sunday.”

Well said, Griffin.

The W.F. West three-sport standout said it’s nice to move back behind the plate for the Bearcats. He might have even snuck off to the batting cages during the basketball season once or twice (but you didn’t hear that from him).

You couldn’t blame him if he did. Baseball, Squires noted, takes some time when it comes to getting into the swing of things — no pun intended.

He said depth perception is always tough to handle at the beginning. But, then again, anything ‘tough’ seems to fit him just fine.

Remember Griffin hopping over the press table and the fence behind it at the 2A State Tournament in Tacoma this past Saturday?

Yeah, well, let’s just say he doesn’t take a break when he steps onto the baseball field, either.

Squires said he got nailed twice behind the plate in a scrimmage Wednesday. Doesn’t matter, though.

As so many have come to say: That’s just Griffin.

“I get used to the bruises,” he said.

Fans never do, and that’s why so many people go to watch him and W.F. West play.