Mets, Yankees have both seen former cricket player Kieran Powell work out

The Mets and Yankees have both had looks at the famous cricket star who’s trying to become a baseball player. But it remains to be seen whether Kieran Powell can make the transition to the diamond in any meaningful way.

Powell, a former West Indies cricketer, had a workout in front of a dozen or so teams Wednesday at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla. The Yankees were one of the teams with a scout there, according to a baseball source.

I am so mad at Pybus and his exclusion of this young English trained Batsman !

IMO . Kieran Powell had places to go as an Opening bat !

Powell fails to impress Advertisement  Former West Indies opener and Major League Baseball aspirant Kieran Powell attracted plenty of attention in the US on Wednesday when he was put through a "workout" in front of scouts in Florida. Powell, 25, was the subject of plenty of media attention but according to Wallace Matthews, who reported on the workout for ESPN.com, a landmark switch from international cricket to the MLB is far from a formality. He reported that a scout from the New York Yankees came away unimpressed and said a rep from another team had told him of Powell: "He sucks. He's not worth any time."[left][color=rgb(0, 0, 0)]
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Can't hold a place in top class cricket won't be able to
in top class baseball...and vice versa.

Powell is a technique opening Bat that can occupy the Crease !

BizBol/ Rounders  require T20 sloggers ...

it was really a dream for him to think he can play in majors