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With overall pick No. 401, the Braves selected Colby Jones out of Northwest Florida State College.

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This one is probably the toughest one since Jones was most likely going to be our 2nd baseman next year if he made it to campus. Going to be hard to turn that down.

We’re no longer at the place where we’re promising starting spots to top 50 freshmen, outside of the bonafide starter types. I doubt Perry would start either way, but definitely not if Sears comes back. Wrightsell or Griffen would play the 2 in that scenario. I think we’d grab a portal 1 to at least compete with Perry even if Sears leaves.

To me, this recruiting class could lay the groundwork for a future of Bama basketball where we get star players to stay and develop until they are ready for the NBA. We have 3 (possibly 4 if Perry commits) top 50 guys that could all realistically be backups next year if everyone comes back. That’s Duke and Kentucky level right there and it’s where we need to get to if we want the program to be a perennial Final 4 contender.

Is Hess injured? I understand GMac back in the line-up, but thought he would definitely replace someone else unless Hess is injured.

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Not sure why he’s still out there in a 9 run game, though. Do we really have no trust in anyone else or just don’t want to give them any momentum going into tomorrow? He’s already at 42 pitches and I would have thought we could have saved him for more meaningful innings this weekend.

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I don’t disagree with you. I think Bo was just trying to let him ride it out and ensure a win for us, but probably could have pulled him after two innings at like 15 pitches and let him pitch another time this weekend.

We do still have Woods (his 4 ERs against Samford completely skew his ERA), Probst, and Braylon Myers (his 3 ERs vs Columbia skew his ERA similarly to Woods) as all pretty lock-down relievers. Add in Quick and that’s 4 guys that can eat up a couple innings each and win us a ballgame.

We haven’t been able to finish when the game has been really close yet, so we’ll see how these next two go in that regard. A series win could do really well for us moving forward, especially after narrowly missing wins the past two weekends.

Shelton with ANOTHER bomb. That makes 2 more this game and 9 this year.

Has to be the leading candidate for SEC Freshman of the Year and in the discussion for even Player of the Year. UNREAL start to his career

I’m mistaken. It seems like Leger did pitch against Tennessee Tech, albeit an uninspiring debut.

Still leaves the question of Hoopes out there. I hoped he’d be ready to go early after taking the end of last season off for injury.

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We're gonna step into the box in Gainesville in a few weekends and see arms of a caliber we haven't come close to seeing in 6 weeks of preseason play. That's an absolute disadvantage. There's a reason almost every other SEC program is playing at least 1 series/tournament against NCAA caliber big conference teams. It's to prepare their guys for conference play.

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I agree. We don’t need an out-of-conference schedule the level the basketball team plays, but at least one series against a ball club close to SEC level would have been nice, such as the Barn playing USC.

I know these select early season tournaments are more invite based, so if we can’t get into one of those that’s fine, but I agree that our schedule lacks any oomph until we get to SEC ball and then it’s show up or shut up at that point.

Shelton has a chance to be the best freshman in the SEC this year. He’s the real deal

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I think the media has a hard on for Houston regardless of them losing to Bama at home. I think they’ll be #1.

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Hard not to after beating an 5-18 Tulsa this past Wednesday and then getting a 9-16 SMU later this week.