Ben Moore, OF/C: 2014 MLB Draft 8th Round

[mabrowndog]

Alabama C/OF Ben Moore
Selected: 8th round (#254 overall)
B/T: R/R
H/W: 6'1"/205
Hometown: Cullman AL (Cullman HS)
 
Contact hitter who rarely swings & misses. 
 

 
BA scouting report:
 

 
Moore has value as a consistent three-year producer in the Southeastern Conference, though he is also a righthanded-hitting college corner outfielder profile without notable secondary skills. So some scouts see him more as a senior sign for next year, while others like his production (.304/.371/.470 in his career) in the top 10 rounds. He has advanced bat-to-ball skills with a career strikeout rate of 9 percent, while walking at an 8 percent clip. The knock against him is that he hasn’t hit well on Fridays (against teams' best starters) and doesn’t make much in the way of impact contact (.317 BABIP). The 6-foot-1, 205-pounder projects to be an average defender in the outfield corners after catching in the early part of his career.

 
Big League Futures (June 2013 scouting report)
 

 
Ben has a proportional athletic build with ideal muscular development who throws off a bit of BJ Surhoff. He shows good range and first step, tracks the ball well off the bat.  He flashes more accuracy than arm strength, but enough to profile at either corner.  He has the ideal [swing] path with a touch of lift in it, gets a good amount of backspin and can drive it to all fields at 5 O’ clock.  He has more of pull power swing in game; it should round out with maturation.  Contact should be at least average down the road.  High follow into next spring; he has the tools that you cannot teach.

 

[mabrowndog]

Missed this nugget over the weekend:
 

Ian Browne ‏@IanMBrowne
Red Sox' Amiel Sawdaye on Ben Moore, who played the outfield at Alabama. "He's going to catch."

 

 

[smastroyin]

Too bad he's not a pitcher, then we could say he really paints the corners.

 

[mabrowndog]

Moore says he will sign.
 

Ben Moore grew up an Alabama fan which led him to choose the Tide when it was time to pick a college.

Now that he's ready for a career, Moore's favorite baseball team chose him.

The Alabama outfielder was selected by the Boston Red Sox in the eighth round, pick No. 254 of the Major League Baseball Amateur Draft. Moore will leave school a year early to play professional baseball.

"I just felt like it's the right thing to do if the right opportunity came," Moore told ABC 3340. "It presented itself and I feel at piece with it. I'm ready to go play and I'm just so happy the Red Sox believed in me and took a chance on me."