Facebook says we got the Oregon Catcher
- Thread starter Bulldog45
- Start date
Baseball & soccer coaches are recruiting their a$$ off. Football coach? Let’s just say this week has been less than spectacular.
Well, he was due to have a down week. They can’t all be winners.
Mississippi State lands Oregon transfer C Burke-Lee Mabeus
Mississippi State landed another option at catcher for the 2027 season, signing Burke-Lee Mabeus through the transfer portal.
I’m not saying that’s an OM name but they’ve confused us before!
Can’t really blame any top recruit. 3rd season of a coach with poor results so far.
Lebby certainly isn’t cutting the mustard but it’s infinitely easier to recruit baseball players to State than football. Money, top program, stadium, and coach.
How long before our sky is falling sixpackers are sporting a “Save Us from Mabeus” bumper stickers on their el Caminos?
It seems like he’s a decent addition. Quick check shows he’s probably a slight downgrade from Milewski offensively, but a slight upgrade defensively.Mississippi State lands Oregon transfer C Burke-Lee Mabeus
Mississippi State landed another option at catcher for the 2027 season, signing Burke-Lee Mabeus through the transfer portal.www.on3.com
2026 Stats:
OPS
Milewski - .947
Mabeus - .890
Fielding %
Milewski -.995
Mabeus - .993
Passed Balls
Milewski - 6
Mabeus - 3
Caught stealing
Milewski 8-29
Mabeus 13-29
It’s kind of hard to gauge how big either gap is without knowing how much of KM’s early season struggles were health related.
Worst-case is that he’s a known commodity at the C position that we can plug in if Milewski moves on to pro ball.
Best-case is he and Milewski battle it out for the position, with the loser of the battle moving to 1B / OF / DH / backup C.
Maybe he's born with it. Mabeus Mabylline.
Those caught stealing stats are not correct.
Milewski - 8/38 21%
Maebus - 13/29 45%
Either they don’t steal as much in the Big10 or not as many teams wanted to test his arm. But Maebus threw out runners at a much higher percentage than Milewski.
In basically the same number of starts Milewski has twice as many passed balls and Mabeus threw out 63% more runners. That's way more than a slight upgrade defensively.
Milewski had a .238 batting average with 30 hits including 13 HRs, .568 slg. Mabeus had a .286 with 50 hits including 8 HRs, .509 slg.
Statistically Mabeus is a better hitter too. I will give Milewski credit that he hit in the SEC and was injured so that would affect his hitting and maybe a few of the passed balls but several of Miewski's passed balls were off of his mitt when it was not close to the ground. I might be missremembering some of those terrible passed balls that were actually the other two catchers, but I know a couple of them were him.
Hopefully Milewski stays, recovers, and makes a big jump and Mabeus plays great too. This way the two of them could alternate playing C, 1st, or DH. That way we would always have a good catcher with fresh legs.
Teams were very willing to send base runners against our catchers this season.
I read it as Burke Les Masters
I'd have to believe that if the staff is considering him their starting catcher, then they're probably viewing Lew as their everyday 1B/DH as well. Looking at the full body of work, the difference between the two doesn't seem all that significant.
Nope. The best one needs to play every day. Maybe let the other one get a few midweek games.
You're often wrong, but right about this^^^^
A lot of baseball programs, and franchises, disagree with you.
Interesting that Mini-me was looking to replace Daniel Jackson with Mabeus.
Lmao I just posted on the name before seeing your post but you aren’t really wrong. Either way really glad to have him and hope he turns into a great player for us. Honestly there’s no reason we shouldn’t have at least a top 3 recruiting class this year under our couch with kids that’s also wanna play ball and build something with Jacob Parker especially and others!
Who cares? If OC was after him that's all I need to know.
We don't have to compare ourselves to others in baseball.
For 4 games per week, there’s no need to do much rotation at catcher. If you're playing 6-7 games per week, then yeah, give your starter a couple days off. But that's built into the college schedule.
I love Lew, but this dude is much, much better. His defensive runs saved and framing are miles ahead of Lew and one of the best in the country. Elite defensive guy and underlying #’s say he could improve a good bit at the plate with some changes to his swing
Last edited: