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re: Alabama baseball hiring Maryland coach Rob Vaughn
Posted on 6/12/23 at 1:45 pm to lsufball19
Posted on 6/12/23 at 1:45 pm to lsufball19
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You realize Alabama went from getting swept by LSU and finding themselves at 9-12 in the SEC to becoming a top 16 national seed after all that happened, right? They actually have a lot of great young players on that roster. Them finishing strong and making a good hire should give them confidence they won't have a bunch of issues with the portal.
I don't know about young, they were a veteran team this season. SOG would have a better idea, but I would think Alabama loses 7 of its top 8 hitters.
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Posted on 6/12/23 at 1:49 pm to Mulkey Man
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I don't know about young,
Their second best player after Pinckney, Colby Shelton, was a true freshman and hit 25 HRs. Pinckney and a couple of super seniors are really the only guys who are 100% gone. Most of their upper classmen still have eligibility left and aren't likely to get drafted.
Posted on 6/12/23 at 1:55 pm to Mulkey Man
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I don't know about young, they were a veteran team this season. SOG would have a better idea, but I would think Alabama loses 7 of its top 8 hitters.
Jarvis, Williamson, Johnson, Pink, Seidl, Tamez are all gone (we assume - they all went through senior day) (Tamez, Jarvis, Pink all have another year if they want it). Definitely a big chunk of our lineup. Guscette, Rose and of course Shelton are back, along with some guys who played in spots (Eblin, Hodo) and some former highly ranked guys who haven't gotten on the field much so far (Hayslip, J. West).
We lose McNairy and McMillan from the staff, but we return the highest ceiling arms on the roster (Holman, Hess, Banks, Davis, Woods, Quick) as well as some other guys who threw well this year (Furtado, Moza). The pitching this year was somewhat miraculous considering we lost our entire presumed weekend rotation before SEC play : a senior with tons of appearances (Jean), a top 50 pick (Hitt) and one of our better freshman starters (Hess) to injury and barely got anything out of any of them.
So we'll have work to do with the lineup, but the staff has a chance to be really special next year. Very curious to see if anybody follows Vaughn from Maryland to plug some of the lineup holes.
This post was edited on 6/12/23 at 1:59 pm
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