Peter Gammons profiles Austin Filiere, third baseman for MIT:

He is a junior with a management science/management analytics major, who’s got it figured this way: he’s taken enough extra courses, like the six he’s taking this semester, so that when June comes around and the MLB Draft unfurls (with teams who saw him finish top two in homers and RBIs in the 2016 Cape Cod League, like Nomar Garciaparra years ago, win the league’s Manny Robello 10th player Award, came to see him play against rivals like Babson and realize, long ago, he broke the MIT career home run record) he will get drafted and sign, and he can then go back to MIT. when short season ball ends on Labor Day. He will graduate before Christmas and enter a full-time career in professional baseball player by the first of January, 2018.

Think that out. Then flash back to the first week of August last summer, when some Cotuit Kettleers players were chatting about the summer before a game in Bourne, big-time Div. 1 players from Arizona, Stanford, Wichita State. “You know who makes the loudest sound when he hits the ball?” asked one player. “The kid from MIT” His Cotuit teammates all nodded in agreement.

“Filliere’s definitely going to get drafted,” said one NL scouting official this week. “His power isn’t easy to find. Our area and crosschecking scouts really like him.”

“When his name gets called, the club will say, ‘we draft Austin Filliere, third baseman-general manager from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.” Hey, as a management analytics major, he took one course last year in which the class ran programs to see what Red Sox lineup would produce the most runs; when you can see the lights of Fenway across the Charles River from MIT, you can do that sort of exercise in courses like The Analytics Edge and Game Theory for Strategic Advantage.

I notice he’s wearing a Fibonacci number, 21. It would be cool if he were the first major leaguer to wear i.