- Full name Justin Loer
- Born 02/25/2003 in
- Profile Ht.: 6'5" / Wt.: 215 / Bats: R / Throws: L
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Drafted in the 13th round (378th overall) by the Colorado Rockies in 2024 (signed for $150,000).
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School: LSU
Commit/Drafted: Never Drafted
Age at Draft: 21.4
Loer is a lanky, sidearming lefty reliever who spent two seasons with Xavier where he combined for a 2.40 ERA in 82.1 innings. He took a huge step forward with his strikeouts from 2022 to 2023 and upped his strikeout rate from 15.9% to 27.3% and transferred to LSU for the 2024 season. He’ll join a deep and experienced pitching staff and provides a unique and deceptive look out of the bullpen thanks to his low slot and lanky levers. He throws his fastball in the 89-91 mph range and will touch 93, but gets more horizontal movement on the pitch than riding life, and as such generates more ground balls and weak contact than huge miss rates. His soft-sweeping breaking ball around 80 mph and low-80s changeup are his best swing-and-miss pitches, though they seem to play up more thanks to the angles he creates on the mound than any pure movement or velocity traits of the pitches themselves. Loer is a straight reliever who could continue to add to his resume by stymieing SEC hitters in 2024.
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School: LSU Committed: Never Drafted
Age At Draft: 21.4
Loer is a lanky, sidearming lefty reliever who spent two seasons with Xavier where he combined for a 2.40 ERA in 82.1 innings. He took a huge step forward with his strikeouts from 2022 to 2023 and upped his strikeout rate from 15.9% to 27.3% and transferred to LSU for the 2024 season. He’ll join a deep and experienced pitching staff and provides a unique and deceptive look out of the bullpen thanks to his low slot and lanky levers. He throws his fastball in the 89-91 mph range and will touch 93, but gets more horizontal movement on the pitch than riding life, and as such generates more ground balls and weak contact than huge miss rates. His soft-sweeping breaking ball around 80 mph and low-80s changeup are his best swing-and-miss pitches, though they seem to play up more thanks to the angles he creates on the mound than any pure movement or velocity traits of the pitches themselves. Loer is a straight reliever who could continue to add to his resume by stymieing SEC hitters in 2024.
