- 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 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. Loer is listed at 6-foot-5, 214 pounds and didn’t quite replicate his success in the 2024 season against SEC competition with a 5.92 ERA in 24.1 innings, but his strikeout numbers were still solid. He throws from a low three-quarters slot and mostly works with a three-pitch mix that includes an 89-91 mph sinking fastball that will touch 93, a low-80s slider that has added a bit of power this spring and a low-80s changeup that has traditionally been his best swing-and-miss pitch. Loer is a straight reliever prospect who doesn’t have typical bullpen power, but could have enough deception that stems from the angels he creates on the mound to make it work.
