The notoriety that goes with having a budding star under your roof hasn’t made much of a difference in the Dave Meyer residence. Part of that is the star remains focused on today and not the future.

In fact, parents often have a hard time seeing the bright future a star may have.

“Alex is still a little boy to me,” Sandy Meyer, the young picther’s mother, said.

That closeness keeps Alex Meyer, a prospective early-round choice as a right-handed pitcher in the pro draft, level-headed. That and his teammates.

“Right now, all I want to do is play (baseball) with my friends,” Alex said.

His mother concurred.

“He just wants to be a Pirate. He’s just Alex. It’s good to be parents of good kids,” Sandy said. “And he’s a good player with lots of good baseball players.”

The Meyers acknowledged that they are aware of the scouts at the games but it doesn’t appear to add much pressure.

“Yeah, he knows the scouts are there. But it doesn’t bother him,” father Dave said. “He may ask who was there. But he’s more interested in who was there, not in what they might think.”

The limelight from the scouts has actually dwindled since he inked a deal to play in college

“He actually saw more scouts before he committed to UK (University of Kentucky) than he does now. There were between 100 and 150 scouts at each game,” his dad recalled.

The decision on where to go after his Pirate days were over, his mother said, wasn’t easy.

“That bothered him,” acknowledged Sandy. “There were three or four schools that he really liked and he worried about making the right choice. He was torn between Kentucky, (the University of) Louisville and Michigan. He was really impressed by Michigan and the coaching staff there, but deep down I think he knew he was going to Kentucky.”

If he goes on to become a Wildcat, it won’t be the first time he’s donned Kentucky apparel.

“Even as a kid he liked Kentucky. Every year at Christmas we had to buy some athletic gear from UK,” Dave Meyer said. “It could be a pennant, a sweat shirt or even a Tubby Smith basketball, but he wanted something from Kentucky,”