Amir Garrett clearly made the right decision.

A year after the former St. John’s basketball player hung up his high tops for a pair of spikes, he was selected to the MLB Futures Game, the All-Star Weekend showcase featuring the sport’s top minor league prospects.

The 6-foot-6 fire-balling lefty, the Reds’ seventh-ranked prospect according to Baseball America, has performed well this year for High-A Daytona, pitching to a 3.22 ERA with 72 strikeouts in 67 innings pitched. He’a allowed just one home run and held opponents to a .249 batting average.

A 22nd-round Draft pick by the Reds in 2011, the 23-year-old Garrett played two years for St. John’s, averaging 6.4 points per game. Ranked as a top-100 basketball recruit out of Findlay Prep (Nev.), Garrett was part of Steve Lavin’s first recruiting class.

He transferred to Cal-State Northridge following his second season, but never played a game there, tired of attempting to be a both a professional baseball player and college basketball player, spending his springs and summers on the diamond and winters on the court.

“Once I just started pitching more and learning how to pitch, I’m like, ‘Man, this is fun. I can do this. I can be a pitcher,'” he recently told MLB.com. “I was having success during the season and said, ‘Maybe I should give my full focus to baseball.’ I never focused on one sport, so I could never get to my full potential. I had a full year and said, ‘I’m all right. I can pitch.’ So I decided to put the basketball down and see where this goes.”