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Draft  | Prospect Scouting Reports  | 5/1/2014

Draft Focus: Mitch Keller

David Rawnsley     
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Every weekday leading up to the 2014 MLB Draft, Perfect Game will be providing a scouting profile on a notable draft-eligible prospect.  Stay tuned to Perfect Game and be sure to visit the Draft Page for all of the latest info and reports pertaining to the draft.

Mitch Keller Perfect Game profile

Position:  RHP
Height:  6-3
Weight:  200
Bats/Throws:  R-R
Birthdate:  April 4, 1996
High School:  Xavier
City, State:  Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Travel Team:  PG Iowa Select
Commitment:  North Carolina
Projected Draft Round:  2-3

If you cup your hands behind your ears you can just barely hear the scouting buzz starting to come from Iowa righthander Mitch Keller’s early performances.

If Keller happened to go to high school in Orlando, Fla., or Long Beach, Calif., that buzz would be reaching a crescendo now only five weeks before the draft. However, due to the nature of high school baseball in Iowa and Keller’s rapid improvement over the last six months, teams are just now starting to realize that the Cedar Rapids native might be the best high school pitching prospect in the Midwest.

Keller has always been a well-known prospect regionally and his early commitment to North Carolina certainly indicates that others were noticing, too. His older brother, Jon, was an 11thround pick out of high school when he was topping out at 95 mph and is now pitching in the South Atlantic League with the Baltimore Orioles after college stints at Nebraska and Tampa. So the family baseball name was well established beforehand.


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