Gator Baseball 2022 Roster/Lineup/Batting Order

To me Pogue looks like he needs more time. Looks like he lost his confidence. Manning is the one I'm worried about. Makes me think he is already looking at other options since we have seen nothing from him and no word of an injury. I would think Jameson will be on a pitch count tonight to keep him available for this weekend.

 

Tonight's starter is either Pogue or Nesbitt.

 

I guess getting a triple just doesn't mean as much as it used to. No Armstrong in the lineup tonight.

 

Here's the current SEC standing with each team's last 2 weekend series to play.

Tennessee 20-4 .833 42-6 30-2 10-2 ----------Georgia / @Miss State
Arkansas 16-8 .667 36-12 28-5 6-6 -----------Vanderbilt / @Alabama
LSU 14-10 .583 32-15 24-6 7-7 ---------------Mississippi / @Vanderbilt
Texas A&M 14-10 .583 30-16 19-9 10-5 ------Miss State / @Mississippi
Auburn 13-11 .542 32-16 20-9 8-6 -----------Alabama / @Kentucky
Georgia 13-11 .542 32-16 21-7 9-7 -----------@Tennessee / Missouri
Vanderbilt 12-12 .500 31-15 20-9 10-6 -------@Arkansas / LSU
Florida 11-13 .458 29-18 18-10 10-8 ---------@Missouri / South Carolina
Ole Miss 10-14 .417 27-19 18-10 8-8 ---------@LSU / Texas A&M
Alabama 10-14 .417 26-22 20-10 6-12 -------@Auburn / Arkansas
South Carolina 10-14 .417 24-22 19-9 4-12 --Kentucky / at Florida
Kentucky 9-15 .375 26-21 20-10 6-11 --------@South Carolina / Auburn
Mississippi State 9-15 .375 25-23 17-11 7-9 -@Texas A&M / Tennessee
Missouri 7-17 .292 25-20 17-6 8-14 ----------Florida / @Georgia

Hopefully you can see the importance with this next weekend. The Gators get to go to Missouri and Vandy goes to Arkansas and Georgia goes to Tennessee. Missouri is 17-6 at home so a sweep is probably asking a bit to much for the Gators who are certainly trending in the right direction. But if we can win 2 out of 3 we could catch both Georgia and Vandy if the games go our way. That's how huge this sweep at MSU was for us. Now we have a chance to make some headway in the conference standings, not to mention improving our NCAA aspirations. Interesting to note South Carolina, our last weekend series in Gainesville, has the worst road record in the SEC at 4-12. By season end, I believe we will pass Vanderbilt and hope a sweep against SC will help lift us over Georgia.

 

Crazy in conference year we are having. We went into it thinking this team was going to have hitters up and down the lineup. But the pitching was going to be the ongoing problem other than Barco. Now more than half our lineup in batting under 250 and our weekend rotation is showing signs of settling in with some support from the relievers. The one common missing link is leadership.
See below.

 

Entering the last week of the regular season Florida, Vandy, Georgia, Ole Miss, and LSU were all one game apart. Much can be gained in this last weekend. So anyone who sweeps will jump ahead. Finishing positions 4 thru 10 will be decided by Saturday night.

Tennessee 22-5
Arkansas 17-10
Texas A&M 17-10
Auburn 15-11 ***
Vanderbilt 14-13
Georgia 14-13
LSU 14-13
Ole Miss 13-14
Florida 13-14
South Carolina 12-15
Alabama 10-16 ***
Kentucky 10-17
Mississippi State 9-18
Missouri 8-19

***Alabama/Auburn game 3 called in the 5th inning due to rain.

Thursday's Games
5/19 - 6:30 PM ET (20) Auburn / Kentucky SEC Network +
5/19 - 6:30 PM ET Missouri / Georgia SEC Network +
5/19 - 7:00 PM ET (1) Tennessee / Mississippi St SEC Network
5/19 - 7:00 PM ET South Carolina / Florida SEC Network +
5/19 - 7:00 PM ET (4) Arkansas / Alabama SEC Network +
5/19 - 7:30 PM ET (10) Texas A&M / Ole Miss SEC Network +
5/19 - 8:00 PM ET (17) LSU / (24) Vanderbilt ESPN2

Interestingly LSU/Vandy are competing for the same spot. Georgia will be hard to catch since they have Missouri in Athens. Ole Miss has a tough challenge with A&M coming into town. Hopefully the Gators can move up 2 spots if everything goes their way.

 

Certainly agree, I 'm hoping Ole Miss will lose a few with Texas A&M coming in and LSU should have a tough time going to Vandy. Either way LSU or Vandy will lose 2 or more games. If we sweep SC we could finish in the top half of the SEC.

 

The photo of the 7 "seniors" from Saturday's game got me thinking, if none of them come back how are we looking. I'm not trying to turn the page yet on this year but we will have to start somewhere less than a month from now. After the season I'll start next year's version of this tracker thread. We will have to see who is coming in and who goes straight to the pros before adding the new freshmen in the openings. Here's a shot in the dark for now.

Line-Up
1B - Caglianone/???
2B - Thompson/De Goti
SS - Rivera/D Fabian
3B - Halter/D Fabian
C -- Lastres/Guscette?
LF - Langford/Talbott
CF - Robertson/Robinson
RF - Evans/Prevask
DH - ???

Pitchers of interest in no particular order
Sproat, Neely, Nesbitt, Slater, Coppola?, Caglianone, Jameson, Purnell, Ursitti, Manning, Ficarrotta, Abner, etc.