He is at Grayson County College in Texas- a Community College, and I do not believe he was drafted this year as far as I can tell. The reason probably because while he showed some power potential- last I saw he hit 7-8 home runs, he also showed that he needs to work on his hitting- .250's I believe.
Patrick Palmeiro is listed as a corner infielder, and he's a little bit bigger than his Dad at 6'2" 205, and he's RH.
He was listed on one website as a MSU commit, but he was never listed as a commit on any other MSU website like the MSU's, GP, or BDJ. The story I heard was that Rafael wanted him to wait and see what happened with the MSU coaching search. I think if Raffo were the HC, he would be here now, in all honesty. That said, I don't think that we're necessarily out of the picture, either. At the same time, I don't know that the website that had him listed as a commit was necessarily inaccurate either, they didn't exactly have a reason to blow sunshine up our rears, if you know what I mean. I think it's possible with Palmeiro's wealth that the plan was for him to possibly walk-on at MSU, or commit if Raffo was named the HC in June.
Now, as far as the present, I still think that we could certainly use him. Palmeiro is a 3B/1B by trade, and we need some corner infielders, I think that's one of MSU's biggest recruiting needs with Parks, Duffy and Sneed being seniors next year, and with Bright being a Fr. and Ray being a walk-on, and I think we're going to need some corner OF's in the very near future to, and I think Patrick could probably make a transition to RF or of course, LF fairly easily. Oh, and it probably would be a pretty good PR move on Cohen's part. Not only that, I do think he could be a very good SEC player- probably not SEC Triple Crown like his Dad, but I do think he could be a 10-15 home run guy and a .300 hitter by the time he is a junior. The questions right now are- How much does he improve? Will he get drafted and if he does, will he sign?, and Invited walk-on vs scholarship? And there could very well be a "Your name is on a building, you're coming here for free scholarship."
I do think Cohen will at least try to go after him mainly because Palmeiro is the type of player that Cohen has said that we will go after as far as going after legacies. And I don't know how Rafael Palmeiro feels about Cohen, but it does seem like Raffy still has some feelings of goodwill towards the baseball program, at least.
I would like to think that we're recruiting Jackson Posey out of Sumrall for third base, but I haven't seen anything firm on that, and I think we're going to get Boomer Scarborough, who plays third at St. Stanislaus. Kaleb Barlow is probably SS/3B, but I think it's about 50/50 State/LSU and then he could very well go pro even if he does commit. I also know that James McMahon from Oak Grove and is a commit can play third, but I think he ends up mainly being a pitcher for us. If I had my drouthers, I would want Posey at third, Barlow at SS , put Chase Luwallen at second and then move Scarborough and Palmeiro to the OF. And yes, Patrick would be in LF. Oh, and I know that we're recruiting Tyler Mims from Hoover, but if we get him, I'm thinking he probably will be a catcher. And I think Ethan Bright will be a first baseman. But we'll see, I doubt it works out like that when it's all said and done.