AFF wrote:jinxy wrote:So you could be talking about blake brady or the lefty first baseman that redshirtedast year. Toby delamarre or something like that. Kid was from michigan.
Sounds like after fall ball the outfield is artis morris and embry with michael largey challenging for pt against righties. Havent heard for sure on infield but im guessing highfill at 3b mcdyre at 2b locklear ss and yayck brady and the kid above in the 1b dh roles. Matt allen and tre todd behind the plate with todd having such dh opportunities as well. Sounds like todd is def a middle of the order lefty bat but his defense is behind.
Pitching wise degroat prive and bertsch could be the weekend guys with tarantola and clinton challenging for midweek roles. No idea on the new guys. Sounds like we need to define a lot more.
In my opinion this can be a great offensive team if yayck is healthy and embry and todd are as good as their billing. We also should have the most team speed in recent memory. The entire outfield plus locklear and allen can swipe a bag or take extra bases. Defensively we could be very good as well if locklear and highfill can steady the left side.
Pitching is clear. We have some horses but we will need 3 to 5 of the new guys to step up.
Half the dudes you mention aren’t even on the team anymore( Morris, Brady, and other 1b Torre) Morris never came back and others well let go first week of practice. May want to recheck your source.
Thanks for your updates on this. I knew there was a lot of mis-information in the previous post, but didn't want to research it.
There were 20+ scouts here for our scout day. They were mainly interested in looking at Artis and DeGroat. DeGroat didn't throw that day, don't know why. There was a little bit of mild interest in the new first baseman Matthieu. However, he is only a freshman and the interest was generated by his big, big, big bat. Yayck is healthy. He could have played last year, but would have been limited to DH duties only. It didn't hurt him to hit at all, he just couldn't throw. He chose to have surgery because he thought it would be better for him in the long run. (Great, great kid BTW).
Team speed is about average (the scouts timed almost everyone). And we have some fundamental issues with fielding in the infield.
We should score some runs, we are going to have to have a newcomer or two step up on the mound.
Hopefully we will have a good year. Have a couple of holes to fill yet.