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BYU's Hale 'a pure hitter' taking advantage of his opportunity

Spenser Heaps, Deseret News

Although we’d love to have him back here next year, there are a lot of Major League teams that really like him.

PROVO — When outfielder Kyle Dean went down with a season-ending injury last season, BYU baseball coach Mike Littlewood turned to freshman Brock Hale.

Hale got the first opportunity to play in place of Dean "but he had some anxious at-bats and didn’t look very comfortable,” Littlewood recalled. “So we put Keaton Kringlen in and the rest is history. Kringlen became a freshman All-American.