Baseball player Pier-Olivier Boucher has announced his signing with the Atlanta Braves after his draft yesterday. It was around 11 p.m. on Monday that the Major Baseball League (MLB) organization concluded the agreement with the Beauceron athlete.
This is what the native of Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce said, as part of a press scrum with the media this morning. The details of this contract have not been specified, while we await the official announcement of the organization. At outfield, Atlanta made him a 10th-round pick in this MLB draft.
First Quebecer selected in this auction, he is presented as a natural hitter. Having spent his last two seasons at Southern Illinois University Edwardsvillehis statistics have gone up a notch in the last campaign.
The number 22 had a .331 batting average, in addition to hitting 16 homers in 57 games with his university club. That’s a clear improvement to his eight home runs and .325 average from last year.
He worked on several details to convince a professional team to give him a chance. This is what he revealed to EnBeauce.com, while no team picked him in 2022.
“I worked on pretty much every aspect of my game. I’m passionate about this sport. I worked on my defense, my stick, my mental aspect, which is very important in baseball. I wanted to touch all the factors of the game and take them up a notch. »
Pier-Olivier played on passion and versatility, to show a professional team that he belonged to this caliber. Theoretically, he will join the organization’s training camp in Florida, as the new selections do.
2023-07-11 16:02:56
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