Aaron Blair Aaron Blair Aaron Daniel Blair (born May 26, 1992) is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. Blair attended Spring Valley High School in Spring Valley, Nevada and played for the school's baseball team. Blair then attended Marshall University, where he played baseball for the Marshall Thundering Herd baseball team. The Houston Astros selected him in the 21st round of the 2010 Major League Baseball Draft but decided to go to college instead. The Arizona Diamondbacks selected Blair with the 36th pick of the 2013 Major League Baseball Draft. He was traded to the Atlanta Braves by
George Scott (first baseman) and leading his football and basketball teams to state championships. He chose baseball as a career "to make my living. I got tired of watching my mom struggle [with three jobs]. I didn't have the mind that I could go to college and see my mother struggle for another four or five years." Major league scout Ed Scott (no relation to George) of Mobile, Alabama, who had signed Hank Aaron to his first major league contract, discovered George Scott and signed him as an amateur free agent straight out of high school on May 28, 1962, for $8,000. Eventually promoted