Mizzou Baseball Recruiting: Potential 2011-12 Recruit

Tyler Hunt, RHP, Westran HS (Huntsville, MO)

2010: 6-2, 60.2 IP, 133 K, 27 BB, 1.15 ERA.

■ Tyler Hunt has been looked at by Mizzou as a baseball pitcher. Hunt has thrown the shot put 43 feet and has a 20 plus strikeout game to his credit in two seasons at Westran. Tyler Hunt pitched a no hitter against Knox County last spring.(nemonews.com)

■ Area's hardest thrower reached 95 mph this season without losing control and was Hornets' top slugger with a .460 average, four home runs and 32 RBI. (Columbia Daily Tribune 2010 All-Area Baseball Team)

■ Randolph County's Embree, Hunt being looked at by MLB scouts (Moberly Monitor Index)

Tyler Hunt of Westran High School in Huntsville and Corey Embree of Moberly were invited by a MLB scout to participate in a Philadelphia Phillies tryout combine held at Lee's Summit, Mo. on Tuesday.
. . .
This was Hunt's first MLB workout session, and Embree's third since last August and he has been invited to participate in 2 more this summer.

Both players are playing ball with a club team that plays games throughout the summer at several showcase venues held at college sites. Hunt, who also is considering a career playing football, is playing baseball this summer on an 18U team in the Kansas City area named Kansas City Mets.

■ Thanks to mizzou4316 at Tigerboard.com for tipping us off to this potential Tiger recruit.