From a D1 commit to one of the best arms in Utah, and a near-perfect glove to a rocket arm, these five Bingham Miner baseball players are talent-laden and ready for the next chapter in their baseball careers. 

Kam Beck – Oregon State University 

For two straight years, Kam Beck has been the top hitter for the Miners. The Bingham senior is leading so many statistical categories on the team it’s silly. Beck is hitting .386 with seven home runs and has 25 RBI. In addition, the senior committed to Oregon State has 27 hits and a whopping nine doubles on the season. Beck’s on-base percentage is .531 and he has 15 stolen bases. Again, these are all team-highs. Lest you think that’s all, Beck leads in one more category: slugging percentage [.861]. 

In Utah high school baseball, Beck’s 7 homers rank him No. 6 among thousands of high school prospects. For Beck, the next step after Bingham’s run to the upcoming state tournament – where the Miners hope to make some noise – is of course Oregon State University, where the Beavers have a storied history, national titles and yielded the No. 1 pick in last year’s Major League Baseball Draft in Travis Bazzana. 

Other major leaguers you might recognize that are OSU alums are Adley Rutschman, Steven Kwan and Trevor Larnach, to name a few. The Beavs—as they’re affectionately known—are 37-12-1 on the year and are getting ready for another shot at a national title. Will Kam Beck be able to add to an illustrious list of Beavers that have achieved greatness in the bigs? Consider this: in just 155 at-bats in his two-year varsity career at Bingham, Beck has 12 home runs and 60 RBI, hitting .426. 

Boston Snyder and Logan Davis – Yakima CC [Washington] 

At the outset of his career on Bingham’s baseball team under the now-retired legend Joey Sato, Boston Snyder was a catcher as a freshman. But, Sato saw something in Snyder even in his first year of high school that led the former coach to give this kid a chance on the Miners’ varsity. Snyder responded with an RBI. In his sophomore year, the lanky 6-foot-3, 185-pound Snyder made the transition to pitcher and remained on Bingham’s junior varsity to learn. 

When Snyder was a junior in what would turn out to be Sato’s final season, the catcher-turned pitcher played right away for Bingham, striking out two batters in an 11-1 win over Taylorsville. By the time the season was at its end, Snyder had 44 innings under his belt and even tossed a shutout at Herriman on May 3, 2024, striking out nine. That was enough moxie in the eyes of some colleges that started recruiting Snyder, who has become Class 6A’s top dog in both wins [8] and ERA [1.41] as a starting senior pitcher. Not only that, Snyder is No. 2 in Utah in wins and even ranks nationally in that category at No. 145 as a senior. That sort of success led several schools to come in late and recruit Snyder, who committed to Yakima CC in Washington this past January. 

Logan Davis started his career as a pitcher and will end it this May as one, as well. The 6-foot-1, 195-pounder came in relief as a sophomore, appearing in two games on the former Sato’s varsity. As a junior, Davis recorded his first stats in his varsity career, striking out 12 batters in 15 innings pitched and yet no colleges came calling. As a Bingham senior though, Davis has tossed twice the number of innings [29] thus far to go with 20 strikeouts. The thing to know about Davis is that he’s given up no doubles, no triples and no home runs this season—which is why Yakima has also enlisted the Bingham senior’s services. 

Dylan Frank – Scottsdale CC [Arizona] 

Dylan Frank is well known for his fielding, having held a near-1.000 average with his glove for three years on Bingham’s varsity. The 6-foot-1, 170-pounder had a perfect fielding percentage as a sophomore—well above the national average. It dipped slightly to .979 as a junior, thanks to one error he made in one game against Skyline. The same thing happened to him against Copper Hills this season. Other than that, the Bingham senior has been numerically perfect fielding everything. Frank is also capable of manufacturing runs thanks in large part to his speed and athleticism, as his nine stolen bases and 22 runs attests. 

Bauer Williams – Whitworth College [Washington] 

Bauer Williams may be the shortest of the five college-bound Miner seniors at 5-foot-9 and 170 pounds—but he might have the strongest arm. Over his past two seasons as Bingham’s catcher, Williams has 275 putouts in 321 total chances. That’s nearly perfect. His fielding percentage is .969, just a shade below Frank’s and just as impressive. The Bingham senior has also turned 14 double plays in his final season. λ