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That was before BBCOR was put into play and has decreased power numbers across college baseball. Unless the bats change again we will never see those type of power again and even then the college game has already evolved to teams like Arizona last season and South Carolina the past few seasons...

Im pretty sure Nepiarsky throws harder than the "mid 80's" and if you look at our recruiting you will notice that our aggressive baserunning doesn't look to be ending any time soon. I know some of you will hate to hear that lol

Chris Shaw (the kid who hit the 2 homers today) in my opinion was a top 50 player in HS and will more than likely be drafted very high in a few years (26th rd out of HS). I saw him play in Atlanta on the same AAU team as Siena and a few other players who were perfectgame all americans and he...

Nice work huskymedic!

I believe, but don't hold it against me if I'm wrong, that it would still be considered a home game. I would say for situations like this to look at the official UConn website for the schedule and use that to base the rpi off of. The best example I can relate it to was a few seasons ago when an...

Im feeling a sweep of Presbyterian and a loss at C of C

Just an FYI once the RPIs settle themselves out Presbyterian will not be anywhere near the top 50 as they just dont play in a conference to maintain that lofty ranking and up to this point they have no wins that can be considered anywhere near quality. Just in that regard we need to be careful...

Thank you. Yeah thats what I figured with the RPIs. They are very fluid right now and I will definitely get around to looking at that site in my free time. I just thought it was funny when I saw Savannah St highly ranked as I have like a 2nd or 3rd cousin on the team and know they don't really...

ucjoet, where are you finding the RPI's at? I love following that type of stuff but the only website I found that has 2013 rankings has Presbyterian and Savannah St in the top 8 and UNC and GT below UConn in the 120's and I know that there is no way any of those are possible.

At least the organization is taking the right approach with him. No need to rush him up to the majors if he's not ready and hurt his growth, especially when they probably wont be competitive this season. Unless he completely blows up this spring I would imagine him getting a few ABs at the very...

Does anyone have any idea/heard anything on if Springer could make the big league team out of the gate or get a late season call up? To put it nicely, the Astros are not very good and there should be plenty of opportunity

Yeah I'm excited that Ward is off to a good start because after his Fr year and that big win in the regional (I think it was him against Clemson) I thought we would be worrying about if he was going to leave school early. Hopefully this creates some good momentum and he can keep it rolling

Awesome & thanks for putting in the time and effort!

Here's where im thinking the issue is. For instance we just played Purdue twice and Indiana once which is a decent start to SOS and both teams should be top 80 rpi this season but from there where do we go? The following teams in the next few weeks are worse than that and don't help us very...

I wouldnt be worried about early season losses with us because we seem to do this every season. What does worry me is something like 40-20 would probably put us on the wrong side of the bubble bc I really don't like the opponents we are playing non-conf in terms of strength of schedule and...

I have said before in regards to Siena that he would struggle defensively, as he did at Amity. He has the tools (quickness, arm strength, etc) to be above average defensively but he has always struggled with his glove for whatever reason. Hopefully the coaching staff can work him thru the issues...

I don't think it was a down year for talent in CT, it wasnt a great year but it also wasn't a bad year. There were a few kids who wanted to go play out of state (the "Southern school" influence) or had other influences (grades,etc) pull them in different directions. The 25% seems a little bit...

**I will start off by saying I have never seen Milone play so what Im going to say is pure speculation on my part.** I personally think the announcers just got their facts wrong. I know for a fact that Milone did play in the area code games which is EXTREMELY difficult to do and that according...

Im really liking the Presbyterian series followed by the game at Charleston as those should be solid teams that will give us some good games but we should hopefully go at least 3-1 if we dont sleep on those teams. I got the chance to meet Presbyterian's coaching staff a while back and for such a...

No offer and he committed over a month ago as this was far and away his best offer and it was felt nothing else was going to materialize. I have a feeling he might struggle at Seton Hall due to a serious lack of velocity (79-81 mph this summer) and little room to grow because of what I have...

Right now this is an amazing class! Obviously nothing is official until the players step foot on campus because of the draft and other things but on paper this is a very very good class. I think last year's class may have been a little bit deeper but this one has a few elite players so that...

Only thing I could find was he was at 88mph a year ago

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I agree and I think we should expect big things from Ward! We all saw the stuff that he had Freshman year so we know it is there, its just a matter of putting it all together

Maybe we should start a new topic and go position by position with the returning players and the incoming kids. Do maybe a position or two a week and let everyone weigh in on their thoughts. It would give us something to do while the baseball news is slow this time of the year

So the problem (it's a great problem to have) is how does Mazilli coming back influence how our infield will look in the spring? Obviously Mazilli is going to have 2nd locked down

After doing a little digging, it looks like one of the players is Ryan Sullivan plays for the Evoshield Canes AAU team, is from MA and plays 3B. He is listed currently as the #216 player in the country, #1 in MA and #15 at his position.

Just saw a tweet from perfectgame that we got 4 commits... You have to subscribe to see the article so Im not sure who the players are but I thought that it was some big news. Even though it could be commits we have known about but are just late to the party on.

Well it looks like this discussion has pretty much been completely covered... I will say this, there is far more that goes on behind the scenes than anyone here thinks when it comes to recruiting. I was fortunate enough to have my brother get recruited by some very good schools and he committed...

I wasn't saying that Glavine would leave N'Eastern bc I know for a fact that he wouldn't, as he is going to become the head coach of the program in the very near future. I was just giving an example of the type of assistants UConn should be going after now that they have moved up the baseball...

Yeah I know of a few kids who are committed to other places that had some concerns if the new assistants were what they considered D1 level. I'm not sure what the HS coaches are saying nor do I really care about them because the way everything is setup these days AAU coaches have much much more...

Yonick, the reason it went in that direction is because of the loss of coach Blood... His influence on the program should not be overlooked and it just has left me wondering if Penders can keep up what he has built. That is how we got to the qualifications of the new assistants. I will elaborate...

To be honest I have been in the same mindset as huskyblue and just haven't questioned it here yet because I wanted to sit back and give the new coaching staff time to settle in. I however have some very large concerns about some of the new coaches that have been brought in. I believe that...

Siena can make an impact with his bat but he really needs to work on cleaning up his fielding as he goes through periods where he is good for at least an error a game. Daniello I have heard was coming as a pitcher and then someone else told me he's coming as a position player so Im not sure...

Bryan Daniello was named the state player of the year today. Congrats to him! NH Register Article