Scrimmages?
- Thread starter CockyCat3
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I stayed for about an hour and a half. Took a few notes.
Blue team:
P - Bosma
C - Burkes
1B - Church
2B - Herrera
SS - Giles
3B - Felker
LF - Waldschmidt
CF - McCarthy
RF - Ewell
Blake team:
P - Williams
C - Stanke
1B - Gilliam
2B - Byars
SS - Smith
3B - McCoy
LF - Kim
CF - Gray
RF - Schramm
No major takeaways from me today. Emilien Pitre homered opposite field off Zack Lee. Great swing from him. James McCoy also had a hard liner that was an out. The Trackman info was on the scoreboard, which was nice. McCoy's lineout was over 100 MPH.
Thought Tyler Bosma looked the best of all the pitchers. 86-88 with the fastball and struck out McCoy in his first AB with a 78 MPH changeup. He also made a nice play on a swinging bunt down the third base line on Hunter Gilliam. Made a nice play getting to the ball and threw a rope to beat Gilliam at first.
Darren Williams, from what I saw, topped out at 91. The Blue team was super aggressive on the base paths, which should've resulted in two guys being picked off second but Williams threw it too late to third on the first one and threw it into center field on the second. I thought he was a little rusty, which is to be expected, but the velocity being there is a good sign. Kendal Ewell had a liner down the left field line that went for a double but no other hard contact given up from what I remember.
I had the highest velo guy as freshman Drew Lafferty. He topped out at 93 and has a curveball that has potential, but he struggled to throw strikes today. I think the inning was called before he recorded an out. Christian Howe was throwing when I left. He was around 88 MPH with his fastball.
Blue team:
P - Bosma
C - Burkes
1B - Church
2B - Herrera
SS - Giles
3B - Felker
LF - Waldschmidt
CF - McCarthy
RF - Ewell
Blake team:
P - Williams
C - Stanke
1B - Gilliam
2B - Byars
SS - Smith
3B - McCoy
LF - Kim
CF - Gray
RF - Schramm
No major takeaways from me today. Emilien Pitre homered opposite field off Zack Lee. Great swing from him. James McCoy also had a hard liner that was an out. The Trackman info was on the scoreboard, which was nice. McCoy's lineout was over 100 MPH.
Thought Tyler Bosma looked the best of all the pitchers. 86-88 with the fastball and struck out McCoy in his first AB with a 78 MPH changeup. He also made a nice play on a swinging bunt down the third base line on Hunter Gilliam. Made a nice play getting to the ball and threw a rope to beat Gilliam at first.
Darren Williams, from what I saw, topped out at 91. The Blue team was super aggressive on the base paths, which should've resulted in two guys being picked off second but Williams threw it too late to third on the first one and threw it into center field on the second. I thought he was a little rusty, which is to be expected, but the velocity being there is a good sign. Kendal Ewell had a liner down the left field line that went for a double but no other hard contact given up from what I remember.
I had the highest velo guy as freshman Drew Lafferty. He topped out at 93 and has a curveball that has potential, but he struggled to throw strikes today. I think the inning was called before he recorded an out. Christian Howe was throwing when I left. He was around 88 MPH with his fastball.
Great info, thanks! Pitcher velo's will get better as they get stretched out and into the season, so good to see Bosma in high 80s and Williams in low 90s already.
Did you go to the scrimmage yesterday? Any notes from that one? I heard there were a lot of walks and some errors in the field, but didn't hear much else. Sounds like the pitching and the play in the field was cleaned up a little today?
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Thanks for the write-up DT, I had the same impression. We must have been like two of the ten people there. Surrounding the play I really have nothing to add there. I will say that people are gonna love Waldschmidt, he is fun to watch and I love his energy. As with the fall scrimmages, Stanke has great backstop chatter. He is so positive with the pitchers. Since there were few people there you could hear alot. The one thing I took from hearing alot was the pitching coach coaches hard. He was very much into it which I had never realized from just the regular season games.
They are playing every Friday, Saturday and Sunday right now. On the field if weather is good enough.
It was their projected top two pitchers so not necessarily a bad thing.
Travis Smith had a lot of traffic on the bases but got out of most of it and was up to 95. Christian Howe was good but kinda ran out of steam. Jackson Gray had two-run double the opposite way. Austin Fawley keeps hitting the ball hard. Ryan Hagenow gave up a bomb but control was much improved.
I guess there is always that give and take with scrimmages among yourself. Are the hitters good or is the pitching bad? Is the pitching good or are the hitters bad? If someone is there in person they can see if pitchers are hitting spots, and that can give some clue. Even then it isn't really a 'sure thing,' because a pitcher could hit his spots but maybe his fastball doesn't have much run or his breaking ball doesn't have much break and other hitters might be able to put those pitches in play while ours can't. You also then have comfort... a pitcher knows his teammate's tendencies and can exploit those more than an opponent, and vice-versa our hitters have regularly seen the stuff our pitchers have, so they are more prepared for certain pitches and arm slots.
We're inching closer to finding out the truth about this team. I'm excited.
Saw on Twitter SEC baseball will have a 10-run lead after 7 mercy rule this year.
Not a fan. Can score a lot of runs in college in a short time.
Probably a rule intended to speed up the game. And to be honest if you're down 10 runs after 7 you don't have a one in a 100 chance of winning maybe not 1 in 500. Would be interesting to see what the real stats are
I like this rule. I get that a lot of runs can be scored quickly in college but its rare. Personally, I would like to see a running clock in college football as well.
Being down 10+ runs and having 2 innings to do it is still rare even in college ⚾️. So, I like it. No need to drag it out longer than it needs to be
It is rare, agreed. Still, it doesn't take much in college baseball to put up crooked numbers and make a game of it. Those 2 innings are also a place where younger players for both teams can get more experience.
Or it's how you get 30-7 games where teams artificially inflate their numbers late in games when the other team has no arms left. I get it from a injury prevention and travel perspective. There will always be exceptions but, in general, I get it from a coach's perspective.
It does stink that you don't get as much reward if you beat up on a team on Friday night and get really deep into their bullpen and set yourself up for a better Saturday and Sunday where you still have most of your arms and they have a lot less. These are conference games we're talking about. I would understand it more if it was non-conference games but I'm not sure I get it for in conference games.
I think if they bumped it to 15 then I have less of a problem with it. 10 runs isn't huge and things can really change in those late innings, especially if you have a starter that now gets pulled and a team might go to the bullpen, where things are more apt to get wild. Down 11-1 and the opponent after 7 finally has to go to the pen. A few breaks and you get that 3 run show and now you're down 11-4. Do it again in the 9th and what would have been a mercy rule game is now 11-7, and I guarantee that team feels much different about themselves in the next game with that final score instead of being mercy ruled.
A 3-0 game can become a mercy rule with 1 at bat with the opponent never having the chance to respond.
I just think that shortening games has some pretty wide spread repercussions, especially on remaining games in a weekend. Kentucky last year relied heavily on Guilfoil out of the pen. If he only has to pitch 1 inning or 2 innings to end a shortened game then it isn't inconceivable that he can be used again in game 2 or 3. If it is a 9 inning affair and he has to go 4 innings to close out a game then UK would have had to rely on other arms, none which were as consistent. So, that shortened game has an effect on the other two games due to the fact that it was shortened.