BayTiger13

I recall Paz having multiple midweek starts where he would come out in the 1st inning and look like a Freshman All American with a 1,2,3 inning. Come out for the 2nd inning and look like he was completely lost. It was very strange to me. I recall at least 3 games this happened and it was mostly earlier in the year.

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Jay was saying he expects only 6-8 to sign I thought that seemed quite optimistic

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The more I think about it and the more I look at the list of recruits the more I feel like it ends up being 9-10 guys get drafted and sign. 6 seems extremely optimistic and if 8 happens I think that is still a big win.

Just an FYI, the MLB Combine started today. Saw some clips of Nawrocki hitting and he is listed most places as a LHP but the ball coming off his bat is really impressive.

With Kurland it is all about keeping him healthy. His only year healthy was his freshman year. I think every year after that he has had some type of injury he either played through or the one year he only played in 14 games.

Armstrong brought it up but it's similar to Dardar in the sense of it seems he is someone who just always has some kind of nagging injury to keep him from reaching his potential consistently.

I'm sure if Jay would have his way he would want 1 guy to seize each position. That means everyone is playing to a high level. Platooning is more when you don't have that but its obvious Jay isn't scared to have to do that either.

It is too early to tell with any of that though. Still have the draft, fall, and spring ball to go through to narrow it down. Jay is building this roster with a lot of players being very versatile. Fall will have plenty players getting time at multiple positions.

I'm still not 100% familiar with all the rules with that. To me if you had the opportunity to be assigned with a DSA then why not do it.

For Jay to say the roster will be 40-41 they have to have quite a few DSA guys on the roster. I was trying to figure out who would be that but its confusing to try to lock down.

They both have a solid build already. Hoping they can just find barrels a little better and get the balls in to the gaps. It will come. Also a wood bat league. Takes some adjustments there.

Yes, it was 53 before adding Valasquez.

Jay said about 17 so I wouldn't really take that as a hard number. In one of the list in this thread had Aase being someone who wasn't on the roster but I think he will stay on the roster being a LHP. Could be something there coming off TJ and could be someone who can give you some good situational spot innings out the pen. I guess another thought process could be to see if he would agree to go JUCO for a year or 2 and get innings after the rehabbing but not sure he would agree to that. If that was the case he would likely have hit the portal.

Patrick and Ruckert are both playing on the same team in the Pacific Empire League for summer ball. So far through 7 games:
Patrick - 8/21 with 4K/6BB
Ruckert - 8/22 with 2K/8BB

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If we could somehow, someway still get Federico to LSU to play CF this is an astonishingly good transfer class.

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Need Anthony Murphy to take the Derek Curiel route. I believe he can be a day 1 starter in CF. I also don't want to give up on William Patrick. He is too athletic and explosive. When it all clicks for him he will be really good.