BY JEFFREY LUTZ, The Wichita Eagle-
Ask Chris Colton to pinpoint the moment he realized he possessed superior defensive capabilities and he doesn't refer to his seven-year professional baseball career.
Instead, Colton brings up his freshman year of high school in Georgia, when an opposing player hit a ball to right-center and Colton, shaded left, ran to track it down.
Colton made a diving catch and got up to throw out a runner trying to score from third base.
"I think that was the turning point of my baseball career right there," Colton said. "I thought to myself, 'Man, I'd like to do this for a living.' "
Colton, the Wingnuts' center fielder, has always prided himself on defense. It's the one constant in a group of tools that have proved inconsistent during his professional career, which began in 2002.
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