UConn Baseball Recruiting and Commitment Thread

[uconnbaseball]

UConn Baseball Commit Reggie Crawford selected in the 37 round by KC.

Should be safe - good news for us!

 

[huskymedic]

UConn Baseball Commit Reggie Crawford selected in the 37 round by KC.

 

[dbmill]

UConn Baseball Commit Reggie Crawford selected in the 37 round by KC.

There are exceptions, but pitchers who are drafted out of high school and end up coming to Storrs usually play a big role their freshman season.

 

[huskymedic]

There are exceptions, but pitchers who are drafted out of high school and end up coming to Storrs usually play a big role their freshman season.

Hopefully he sees the Coach Mac video

In person look at 2019 MLB Draft sleeper prospect Reggie Crawford

A closer look at Pennsylvania high school 1B/LHP Reggie Crawford, one of the intriguing sleepers in the 2019 MLB Draft.

www.talkingchop.com

 

[huskymedic]

UConn Baseball Commit Reggie Crawford selected in the 37 round by KC.

Work your magic Penders...

 

[uconnbaseball]

Waiting on our Pennsylvania friend to decide!

 

[DarthGrumpy]

And Ridgewood is off to the Group IV State Championship Game after a 6 to 1 win over Westfield today behind Favieri who went 6 1/3 today throwing 103 pitches giving-up 1 ER while while striking out 6. The recap has a nice little post-game interview with him.

Group 4 semifinals give Ridgewood revenge with historic victory (VIDEO)

Rich Bevensee | For NJ Advance Media Ridgewood could have focused all its energy on taking revenge on its opponent after losing in last year's state semifinals to the same ballclub. Or, the Maroons...

highschoolsports.nj.com

The Maroons will now play Eastern Regional (Voorhees Township) down in Hamilton (near Trenton) on Saturday for its first ever appearance in the state championship game.

Ridgewood won the NJ Group IV Championship over Eastern Regional 2-1. Sam Favieri came on in relie in the 7th and put the Vikings down in order. As a side bar, the Marron's starting picther, Seitter, went 5 2/3 allowing 2 Hits, 3 Walks, 3 HBP's and 1 unearned run matched-up with 10K's. He's also a Senior and is going to Quinnipiac. A nice little Connecticut connection there.

Veteran coach finally gets state title as No. 4 Ridgewood ends championship draught

Ridgewood wins its first-ever outright title.

highschoolsports.nj.com

PS - The best HS team is NJ is Delbarton, which won the Non-Public A title over St. Augustine 4-3, who beat Delbarton in 2018 1-0. Just look at a sample of their starting line-up: 1) Shawn Rapp IF/P committed to UNC who can hit 90 MPH, 2) Anthony Volpe SB/22 1st Round Pick NY Yankees, 3) Jack Leiter P who can hit 98 committed to Vanderbilt, though the Yanks drafted him in the 20th round to see if he can be enticed .

 

[huskymedic]

The 2019 CHSCA All-State Baseball Teams

Zach Donahue, Todd Peterson, Phoenix Billing, Matt Garbowski

Miss anyone?

 

[Yonick]

The 2019 CHSCA All-State Baseball Teams

Zach Donahue, Todd Peterson, Phoenix Billing, Matt Garbowski

Miss anyone?

Ryan Hyde of Berlin is also listed

 

[dbmill]

This was posted in the Summer Baseball thread:

Two-way player Ben Casparius ready for future with Commodores and UCONN

>>The Ben Casparius who tantalized the ball in Connecticut continued that trend at UNC. In his freshman year, he batted .316 with 15 RBIs. On the hill, Casparius held a 1.69 ERA in 10 appearances. To add to his awesome stat line, he went two-for-five with three RBIs against Oregon State in game one of the College World Series.

A pretty impressive season on both ends for a natural position player.“He really is a position guy first and foremost,” Phil Casparius said. “People love the fact that he throws hard and has good off-speed stuff. But one of the things that has always been his calling card is that he is a baseball player. It is unique for guys to be that versatile and be both a pitcher and a position player.”

But in his sophomore season, the talent pool at North Carolina increased and it became difficult for Casparius to hit the field.“You’re never going be fully satisfied with everything and opportunities might be limited,” the right-hander said. “I just felt it was time to come a little bit closer to home and just get a restart.”

So, he did exactly that. Casparius decided to head home and transfer to the University of Connecticut. “UCONN is really everything that we could ask for as a family along with the great coaches,” Ben Casparius said. “It’s going to be a lot of fun.”<<

Casparius' UNC Career Stats (his last appearance/game for UNC was 4/21/19)

 

[kris1]

This was posted in the Summer Baseball thread:

Hopefully a fresh start drives Casparius to be the player we saw at Staples and as a frosh at UNC. It will be interesting to see how the staff uses him. He played some 3B at UNC, in addition to pitching. He was a designated hitter a majority of his freshman season at UNC.

 

[HuskyHawk]

This was posted in the Summer Baseball thread:

Does he need to sit one to play 3?

 

[huskymedic]

Does he need to sit one to play 3?

He played as a freshman and a sophomore so if he sits he has two years of eligibility left.

 

[businesslawyer]

Has he already sat the one year or is he not suiting up again until 2021?

 

[uconnbaseball]

Has he already sat the one year or is he not suiting up again until 2021?

He played this year, pitching 17 innings out of the pen to a tune of a 4.41 ERA (giving up a hit an inning - honestly not terrible metrics for a down year). He will have to sit out a year and join our ridiculously loaded 2020 class in terms of pitching.

2021 could be a huuugggeee year for us.

 

[dbmill]

While I would expect Casparius to have to sit out a year, there are some college baseball players who do play right away. A UConn example from a few years ago would be Nico Darras, who transferred to UConn after spending his freshman season at Cal State Fullerton.

 

[UConNick]

Damn, huge news. Don't know how that slipped past all of us, haha. It's IG official, too. Ben's account says "UCONN Baseball 2021" and I don't think it gets much clearer. I'd expect him to instantly compete for the 3B job and a key slot in the bullpen whenever he is eligible, though it sounds like he may want to take a step back from pitching.

 

[uconnsouth]

Erik Stock says he’s coming to UConn, any intel on him?

 

[huskymedic]

Erik Stock says he’s coming to UConn, any intel on him?

2017 Virginia Beach native > ODU Transfer. Utility Player w/ 2 years of eligibility left.

 

[uconnbaseball]

Batted .320 as a freshman and was a C-USA all freshman team selection.

Like our other transfer, he didn't play as well as a sophomore for whatever reason. I like buying low on guys that have shown they can play at a high level at the D1 level that might need a change of scenery.

 

[Yonick]

Batted .320 as a freshman and was a C-USA all freshman team selection.

Like our other transfer, he didn't play as well as a sophomore for whatever reason. I like buying low on guys that have shown they can play at a high level at the D1 level that might need a change of scenery.

What position does he play?

 

[navery12]

What position does he play?

From his ODU bio:
Also went 1-2 with a 6.05 ERA in 10 games, including two starts, in limited time on the mound ... Played first base, third base and DH

 

[dbmill]

Interesting. Erik Stock is not the usual Division 1 transfer that UConn baseball gets. With the exception of California native Nico Darras, the transfers in recent years have been northeastern kids basically coming back to their home area. Now we got someone from south of the Mason Dixon line deciding to transfer to Storrs. That is indeed different. Between UConn baseball making the NCAA tourney 6 out of the last 10 years, and all the players taken in the MLB draft during the Penders era, it seems that it is safe to say that the profile UConn baseball is starting to get noticed by players outside the northeast (aside from the California JUCO pipeline to Storrs that has been operating for several years now). Getting a southern kid to transfer in definitely falls into the category of breaking new ground for the UConn baseball program.

 

[businesslawyer]

So when do we hear whether Reggie Crawford is signing his pro contract or coming to Storrs?

 

[huskymedic]

So when do we hear whether Reggie Crawford is signing his pro contract or coming to Storrs?

Soon... MLB signing deadline is deadline is July 12 at 5 p.m. ET