Beer

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Beer

 

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[Ray]

I’m still surprised he fell as much as he did. I know his position is a question mark, but if the bat is legit, it’ll play anywhere.

[metafour]

I’m still surprised he fell as much as he did. I know his position is a question mark, but if the bat is legit, it’ll play anywhere.

 

He didn't "fall", he went in the range where players like him typically go in. Brent Rooker put up MUCH better stats than Beer did in the strongest conference in NCAA baseball (the SEC) and no one was hyping him up as anything other than a ~Comp 1st-2nd round pick. Sure, you can make the case that Rooker was older, but even Gavin Sheets put up roughly similar stats and he went in the 2nd round. Seth Beer really wasn't doing anything overtly mind-blowing as a 1B/DH college masher; there's guys like him in most drafts, and they typically fall in that range.

[TheHurl]

He didn't "fall", he went in the range where players like him typically go in. Brent Rooker put up MUCH better stats than Beer did in the strongest conference in NCAA baseball (the SEC) and no one was hyping him up as anything other than a ~Comp 1st-2nd round pick. Sure, you can make the case that Rooker was older, but even Gavin Sheets put up roughly similar stats and he went in the 2nd round. Seth Beer really wasn't doing anything overtly mind-blowing as a 1B/DH college masher; there's guys like him in most drafts, and they typically fall in that range.

 

I don't totally disagree but there is a difference. Rooker was 20.5 when he took his first college AB and improved every year. Beer put up the best numbers in College as a 19 year old that skipped his senior season of high school. Beer got drafted where he did based on those numbers...more so than his sophomore and junior numbers. If Beer improved every year he was in College, it would not have mattered if he was actually an unathletic butcher (which I don't believe he is...I mean the guy was a World class swimmer at 16. I don't know if I've ever seen an unathletic swimmer). He would have been number 1. He's shown to be a guy that can hit unreal for weeks at a time, and then disappear for months. Screams to be a guy that is going to benefit from a world class organization that will get his head together. It would not surprise me if he's the best hitter in this draft still.

 

I of course also professed my love of Conine and Eierman at points in this thread so I've been proven to be dumm