Kumar Rocker was expected to be a top ten pick, alongside his Vanderbilt teammate Jack Leiter. He was to be the latest stud out of the Vanderbilt baseball machine, but as he slid in the 2021 draft, down to the Mets, the whispers started. Something was off, teams were waving yellow flags, if not red, and the demands weren’t coming down from the standard …
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