TYLER CANNON

8/30/87; '09 41st; Univ. of Virginia
B/R; 6-0, 205

Level	BA	OBP	SA	AB	2B	3B	HR	BB	K	SB	CS
2007 NCAA	.279	.350	.354	226	10	2	1	20	46	8	4
2008 NCAA	.252	.324	.345	226	14	2	1	23	45	14	3
2009 NCAA	.348	.440	.489	227	19	5	1	33	40	17	2

Cannon has been a starter at both third and short, and has also played center and caught. Baseball America ranked him as the fifth best prospect in Virginia, in a year in which the state didn’t produce much draft-eligible talent. According to BA, scouts think Cannon would do better at third or catcher and have doubts whether he’ll hit. It wouldn’t make any sense to move him to third, though, because he doesn’t seem to have the bat to play there. The decision to become a switch-hitter may help. He hit right-handed his first two years and has attributed his sophomore year slump to his inability to lay off sliders away (which would describe half the Pirates’ current roster). He began switch-hitting his junior year and the change seems to have worked. He's told people, before and after the draft, that he’ll definitely return to Virginia.

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