Brent Rooker - 2017

[wavedog]

Moving on up!  

 

https://www.facebook.com/HailStateBB/photos/a.248717025143475.80501.136769366338242/1804339469581215/?type=3&theater

 

Rooker finishes at E-Town with 99 plates appearances   .282/.364/.588.     7 HR's and 5 Doubles

 

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=rooker000bre

[wavedog]

Rooker has completed 20 games at Ft. Myers and admittedly he is off to a slow start at Single A.    Currently batting .200  with 3 HR's 2 Doubles  and 9/23 BB/K's.   He had an interesting last week batting .261 with 2 HR's including a Grand Slam  - but he had only 1BB to go along with 10K's.  So he struck out over 40% of his AB.  Most of his K's have been swinging K's but this past week 4 of the 10 strikeouts were looking - so it appears he is trying a different approach.   They are rotating him between playing LF, 1B and at DH.

 

Now for something completely different - if you are interested in him being interviewed while he was at Mississippi State in 2016 and learning his thoughts on Alien's and UFO's this is the video for you.   His interview portion begins at about the 11:30 mark of the video.   

 

http://www.hailstate.com/news/2016/4/21/210901988.aspx?path=baseball

 

 

 

[old nurse]

A+ pitching might be the best pitching he has seen.  Some claim average age to league is important. He is a little younger than league average. It is a head start for next year.

[AZTwin]

Rooker just got his 6 home run and 21st RBI in his 25th game in high A ball. Combine that with his rookie ball experience and he has 13 homeruns and 38 RBI in 47 games. I have to admit where I'm wrong. He is having much more success in high A ball than I was expecting

[wavedog]

A quick update on Mr Rooker's 4th week in Ft Myers.  He was named Florida State player of the week - congrats!  Anyway great week for Brent - he batted .364 with 3 HR's and 13 RBI's.   He also cut his K's in half from the prior 2 weeks.  Still would be nice to see a few more walks*.   Brent has played 4 weeks in Ft Myers and here are his HR's by week:   0 ,1, 2, 3  .   Nice trend,   I guess we should look for 4 HR's this week?

 

*I just noticed Brent walked 3 times in Monday's game so looks like he took my request for more walks to heart.  

[bluechipper]

Rooker also made MLB Pipeline's prospect team of the week.  http://m.mlb.com/news/article/248368232/prospect-team-of-week-led-by-nick-senzel/?topicid=151437456

[wavedog]

Link to the Ft Myers Facebook page announcing his player of the week honor:

 

https://www.facebook.com/FortMyersMiracle/photos/a.195209193924475.36279.190324074412987/1221135827998468/?type=3&theater

 

 

[AZTwin]

10 home runs in 128 at bats in the Florida state league is incredibly impressive. Isn't it known to be a pitchers league? Just trying to look at some of our power hitters in the past:

 

Justin morneu hit 4 homers in about 190 at bats though only 20 years old

 

Miguel sano hit 16 in 206 at bats so about the same clip. He was also 20.

 

Brian Dozier hit 7 home runs in 500 at bats at age 23-24.

 

Max Kepler hit 5 homers in 400 at bats age 21-22

 

Lamonte wade hit 4 homers in 110 at bats last year at age 22

 

Rooker is 22. Unfortunately don't have a ton of college guys to compare him against but I think it looks promising