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Fingerlakes1.com Menu Kyle Evans covers local high school, college, and professional sports on FingerLakes1.com. Click here to contribute to our Sports Page or connect with Kyle using kyle@fingerlakes1.com. For months, the Mets scouted Kumar Rocker as closely as any player eligible for the 2021 MLB Draft, all while understanding there was little chance Rocker would fall to them at No. 10 overall. Not so long ago considered a candidate to be the top pick of the Draft, Rocker represented the type...

1:35 AM UTC Share share-square-250986 While it’s always exciting to watch young amateur players fulfill their dreams by getting drafted by a Major League team and embarking on a professional career, the people responsible for making that happen -- the scouts -- often go overlooked and underappreciated.   It wouldn’t be practical to name every scout responsible for keeping the game of baseball moving. But with the 2021 Draft just a few days away, we thought we could at least shine a light ...