The Mystic Schooners lost their playoff game over the weekend, so they are done for the summer season. So Ben Maycock short summer ball season is over as well. Maycock joined the Schooners in mid July, and his bat was very productive in the short time he was with the team. In 13 regular season games, Maycock had 50 official at bats, had a batting average of .380, a .483 on base percentage, and a .660 slugging percentage. Maycock had 4 homers, 2 doubles, 8 walks, 5 stolen bases, and 14 strikeouts during the regular season. In Mystic’s one playoff game, Maycock went 0 for 4 to lower his overall batting average to .352. One area where Maycock improved over last summer season was that he had a lower percentage of time striking out. Last summer with the Watertown Rapids of the Perfect Game League, Maycock struck out 31 times in 68 at bats, which is close to half. This season with Mystic, he struck out 14 times in 50 at bats, which is under a third of the time. That Maycock also struck out at a lower rate in the NECBL than he did in the Perfect Game League also speaks well of his improvement from one summer to the next.
Before Maycock went on his hitting joyride with the Schooners, I thought there was a very good chance that he would not be on UConn’s 35 man roster this coming spring. After all, Maycock redshirted the 2017 season, and then saw very minimal playing time in both 2018 and 2019 (getting five plate appearances this past spring is pretty minimal). He was a fringe player, and in college baseball, there are always a flood of newcomers to the team every fall ball season, so I thought it might be time that Maycock fall victim to the college baseball numbers game. If Maycock’s bat and offense continue to do the talking during UConn’s fall ball season, it will to be interesting to see if he could not only make the team again, and also possibly make a run at getting some playing time as a left handed hitting D.H. Of course, in baseball terms 13 games is a small sample size productivity, so we will see what happens.
