Gator Baseball 2023 Official Roster Tracker/Lineup???

Lastres has serious MLB potential as a catcher and one of his key assets is his remarkable arm strength and accuracy. Now, he will likely miss playing behind the plate for a good portion or all of the 2023 season. I know he was trying to help the team- but blowing out your elbow in a bullpen session would be damn annoying to me.

 

If he blew out his elbow in one bullpen session, his elbow was a ticking time bomb anyway.

 

We also forget that Caglione and Coppola will be back next year and it seems like Abner got it figured out in the cape. If Sproat Comes back which it looks like is going to happen Pitching may end up being our strength this year. Lot of what ifs have to go right but there is a lot of quality arms down there all of a sudden.

 

Who knows, he might have volunteered to pitch since he had successfully done so in high school. Maybe something is out there but I wouldn’t just assume that our coaches “forced” him into it.

 

All valid and legit points and questions. The thing is though—at this point there are more questions and speculation than there is accurate information to have an informed opinion.

Lastres has always been scouted as a strong armed catcher. I don’t know exactly what type of throwing he was doing. It does seem strange for messing around with one bullpen session to result in the TJ surgery.

The normal assumption would have to be there were already arm issues going on. But uninformed assumptions, for me at least, never seem to lead to accurate answers.

Whatever the circumstances resulting in his injury are/were, they are in the rear view mirror and hopefully he has a complete recovery back to game speed for him and our Gators.

 

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All good points 74. Hoping for full recovery as Lastres has the potential to be a great one. My initial point is that I do know that Lastres, given his strong arm, did a lot of double duty catching and pitching in travel ball and HS so it could have put considerable strain on the elbow. And as 31 noted-- it may have been an underlying issue waiting to happen.

 

Sproat is Back!

 

This is great news for Gator baseball fans.

I hope it works out for Brandon next draft.

 

short of injury and him not pitching well, he should be fine, he has 2yrs eligibility

 

6 kids haven’t signed in the top 10 rounds in the last two drafts combined. 6 out of about 630!

And two were Gators… Those odds can’t be high.

 

Friends, 2023 is beginning to look like the GATORS can be a very special team with outstanding pitching- as good and deep as we've had in years- and solid hitting. Looking forward to start of Fall practice/scrimmages.
Final note on the Sproat front- it appears the Mets did offer some $900k but as the bonus money started flowing to others they were unable to go higher without losing a first round pick- in essence the negotiations were over - days before the deadline.