Better know a draft prospect: Kumar Rocker
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The college baseball season has hit the regional tournament time of the season, with regional finals and the CWS right around the corner. Last year’s loss of the CWS impacted Omaha significantly with a loss of revenue for the downtown area and the businesses surrounding TD Ameritrade. Along with that financial impact on the city was the impact on player’s draft stock that this year’s draftees are feeling now with fewer opportunities to impress scouts in 2020. Scouts missed out on players raising their game to another level when their team needed it most. Losses in at-bats and innings have scouts filling in the blank spot where the 2020 season would go with a small sample size and a heavier pen on 2021 performance. As it stands now, the last time we as fans have seen a player step his game up in the NCAA regionals and on the College World Series stage was in 2019. That