Omaha, Neb. – Jordan Brewer should not be on the Michigan baseball team.
A three-sport athlete in high school, he was set to join the Wolverines’ football squad as a preferred walk-on before a shoulder injury his senior year ended that dream. Brewer didn’t have any baseball scholarship offers until tiny Lincoln Trail College in Robinson, Ill., gambled that his athleticism would translate to the diamond. After two years of honing his skills at the JUCO level, Brewer picked up 25 Division I scholarship offers and interest from MLB teams.
He transferred to Michigan, and now he’s the Big Ten Player of the Year and a third-round pick by the Houston Astros.