Preseason baseball poll....

[gymdawg.sixpack]

So whichever poll came out today doesnt have us in the top25....how do they figure? When i went to check out our roster i see tons of talent. Im not predicting we'll win the sec outright (So many variables and all)...but i do think this team will have at least a chance to repeat. Is this simply the losses they're equating into our ranking?

 

[patdog]

Preseason baseball polls are even more meaningless than preseason football and basketball polls. Nobody outside Cohen and our coaching staff know how good we'll be this year.

 

[engie]

We lost a metric **** ton last year -- and several of our most talented arms are out for the year with TJ or coming off of TJ.

I'll be pleasantly surprised if this team is a top 25 team. Really just hoping it's a tournament team. That would require us hitting on the JUCOs again like we did with Lowe and Kruger, rather than the Holland type of misses. Those guys really took us a couple of steps forward last year, and it's possible we have a few more like that this year, you just never really know in advance. Also, will need a number of pitchers to step up.

 

[57stratdawg]

Transition year. Losing Kruger last minute was big. Wish our bullpen was healthier.

 

[gymdawg.sixpack]

Which arms wont be be available?

 

[Todd4State]

Ethan Small, Noah Hughes, Jared Padgett and I might be forgetting somebody. Parker Ford is in his first year coming off of Tommy John surgery too so that's usually a "recovery year". Rigby and Bollingsley missed most or all of the fall with injuries but they are expected back by the time the season starts. I know Billingsley broke his foot. Not sure on Rigby.

 

[Hoover Dawg]

Noah Hughes threw some innings in fall ball. Or, someone tweeted that.

 

[Todd4State]

That doesn't surprise me because he had his surgery before the others. His rehab won't be finished until sometime during the season but we would essentially waste a year of his eligibility and a spot on the 35 man roster not redshirting him. My guess is Noah will be ready for summer baseball and pitch somewhere this summer and they will go from there.

 

[57stratdawg]

That's a killer list. Hopefully these guys can get ready for 2017, because that's some serious talent sitting on the shelf.