2016 MLB Draft: Top Performers in Cape Cod League

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Originally Posted by Todd4State

NWR has a really good baseball website. It seemed like he hovered in the .300's most of his senior year. I definitely remember being a little concerned about it.

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So you assume that a well run site kept accurate track of his average all year only to boost it by 100 points at the end of the year?

Too early to try to define if Hump can hit for average. There are only 9 guys hitting over .300 in the Cape right now. Hump started out 4-28 with no XBH, no runs scored, and no RBI. He is 10 for his last 30 with 2 bombs, a double, 8 runs scored, and 5 RBI. He has hit safely in 6 of his last 8. We'll see if he goes cold again or not....

I've always thought Reid was a little over hyped coming outta NWR...not that he won't be very good but that he was built up a little more than he was. He was the best player on a team that is among the elites in MHSAA...therefore he's seen as a little more than he is.

HUGE difference between he and renfroe. When renfroe came out he had literally had zero coaching...it was all natural ability. Whereas hump did receive some fairly decent coaching in high school, so his learning curve wasn't at big. Which to me indicates that his ceiling is no where near what we saw from renfroe. But I still expect a solid middle of the line up guy with decent pop next year.

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Originally Posted by Jacksondevildog

Reid is a high risk/high reward guy. Lots of swing and miss and some poor at bats, but he will put up power numbers. He's been that way for a long, long time. Reid didn't get Mississippi Gatorade player of the year because his half brother is Tyler Moore.

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I'm still waiting for the reward part. You can live with a lower average and more strikeouts if a guy is hitting 15+ HRs. Not so much when they are hitting 5 HRs like this past season. Yes, it was second most on the team but still a very low number of HRs for a guy you want to be your cleanup hitter.

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Originally Posted by smootness

So you assume that a well run site kept accurate track of his average all year only to boost it by 100 points at the end of the year?

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Why would their web site have any reason to keep his AVG down all year in the first place?

Baseball stats for high school are fairly difficult to find- you have to take what you can get. And take them with a grain of salt.

FYI- I've actually had some parents of former MSU baseball players come to me before asking where they can find stats on their child for the MSU media guide. And sometimes they are fudged a little bit.

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Originally Posted by bulldogcountry1

Hunter figured it out the summer before his Junior year and kept that momentum going. Humphreys hasn't made that leap. I don't know if he has it in him to mike a leap like that. He's making steady progress, but it remains to be seen if he can live up to the hype.

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Hunter also played in the Cal Ripken League, not the Cape Cod League. As a result, he didn't face the level of pitching that summer.

Thanks for sharing. Love it how information on summer ball is much more accessible these days.

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Originally Posted by Todd4State

Why would their web site have any reason to keep his AVG down all year in the first place?

Baseball stats for high school are fairly difficult to find- you have to take what you can get. And take them with a grain of salt.

FYI- I've actually had some parents of former MSU baseball players come to me before asking where they can find stats on their child for the MSU media guide. And sometimes they are fudged a little bit.

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I'm not saying they were keeping his average down artificially. I'm saying that the most likely scenario is that he got super hot toward the end of the year.

If they were going to fudge it, why wait until the end of the year? Why not just throw a .450 average on him from the jump?

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Originally Posted by smootness

I'm not saying they were keeping his average down artificially. I'm saying that the most likely scenario is that he got super hot toward the end of the year.

If they were going to fudge it, why wait until the end of the year? Why not just throw a .450 average on him from the jump?

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To make him look better than he was.

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Originally Posted by Todd4State

To make him look better than he was.

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Again, my point is that they could have done that all along. Obviously if they wanted to artificially inflate his average, it would also make sense to do so during the season. I just don't get why you saw an average in the .300's during the season, then went back and saw it over .400 after the season and just assumed they made it up.