Alec Keller - POY - Ivy League

Doug Glanville, Chris Young and a few others would love to have the company.

I'm not surprised at all.  He's got great plate discipline and makes pitchers work.  Every year for 4 years, he got better and better IMO.  This year, pitchers were pitching around him (games I attended), and he still won POY.  Impressive.   

Great player and great teammate.  Alec deserves and should get a chance to play beyond college.  Lots of scouts followed him this year and he's got at least 2 individual workouts with teams scheduled in late May.  There are numerous teams talking to him as well.  

A funny coincidence is that another great player and hitter from the Ivy League is also named Keller.  Jeff plays for Dartmouth and is an outstanding hitter.  I think he led or was very close to the top of the NCAA list for doubles in 2013 and had another very solid year in 2014.  He can flat out hit.

This kid was not given the time of day by the D1's in VA in high school.  I don't usually get too high or low on any kids, but I knew this kid could play.  At 6ft 1in & 195 lbs he runs a 6.5 60 and hits left handed.  Add a 1500 2 part SAT and believe me I was shocked that UR, WM & UVA didn't take a flier on him.  After he was a HR short of the cycle against No 1 UVA earlier this year, rumor has it that Coach Mac wondered if they "missed" someone.

Not really shocking at all- In alot of cases -it seems that D1 schools are more interested in how a kid projects rather than if he can really play. I'm sure we've all seen schools flock to a kid that "looks like a player" is really athletic, big and strong and runs well but makes a ton of errors and struggles to hit 300 in high school. Hopefully a great kid like Keller will get a chance at the next level. Congrats to him on POY honors! Well deserved

Good for him!  I love it when this type of thing happens.  Best of luck Alec!

Update:

Keller went in the 17th Round to the Nationals.  

Rich

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Absolutely great news.  I was following Keller during the draft and glad to see he landed with the Nats (my 2nd favorite team).  I'm very interested to see if he signs or decides on a different path as he just graduated.

He was drafted along with 4 others (that I know of) in the Ivy:

Cornell - Jones Jr RHP 4th round DiamondBacks

Princeton - Fagan Sr LHP 9th round A's

Columbia - Speer Sr. LHP 27th round Indians

Brown - Franco Sr. MIF - 38th round Braves