Ben Moore

[mabrowndog]

Ben Moore
C/OF
University of Alabama
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.

 
 
Regarding the Sox' positional plans:
 

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

 

 

[mabrowndog]

Moore is making his pro debut today as DH for the GCL Sox, and so far he's 2-for-2 with a an RBI single, an RBI double and a run scored.