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All great points. Morale will be a big factor, as keeping all this talent happy and contributing when they have opportunity will be a challenge for the coaches as well as the team leaders. Keep it all together and focused as a team and they can accomplish a lot.

 

I’ve only made it to a few practices, but these guys seem to like each other. I heard numerous guys encouraging their counterparts. Deric and Josh talking, laughing, hugging.. BT is very vocal with the other catchers, encouraging them, calling out nice throws and blocks (sometimes even if they weren’t the best). Hopefully that carries through the season. Right now everyone is pretty much getting to play every day, but that likely won’t be the case when the season starts.

I haven’t seen Max in the field much. An inning or two and not many opportunities to make any plays. He made a really nice throw home from pretty deep to make a play at the plate much closer than I was expecting. He makes good contact at the plate and he’s quick on the bases. I think it will be hard to work his way to the top of the depth chart, but he would be a solid addition to the roster if we have room, imo.

 

Always thought the best way for a QB to also play baseball would to be a pitcher. Tough to be a 2 way player and also go thru Spring Football with preparation etc

 

From the one day of practice that I watched Max Brown definitely looked like he belonged on the team but it’s hard to say whether he would contribute at all in the outfield rotation this season. He has good size at 6’2” 200 according to the football roster and he looked bigger than that to me. He’s thick looking and athletic looking. As mentioned before he’s had a couple hits in the practices and I saw him go yard with one during BP. If things don’t work out at QB for him, and I think it would be quite a surprise if it does, it wouldn’t completely surprise me to see him give up football and concentrate on baseball next season. If he does, he has to make up for a lot of lost reps in the outfield and time in the batting cage versus our other outfielders.

 

I'm sure Sully will experiment with a few combinations in the "pre-SEC season" but I would like to see a well-defined depth chart at every position by then plus the battery combinations. (Not discarding that platooning at 1-2 postions--RF comes to mind-- may be the way to go). My take is after Catcher, having the DP combo set and comfortable together is pivotal- "the pither's best friend" as the cliche goes, plus good range in the middle of the diamond.

 

If Caglionone starts out the season as the Sunday starter, does he play 1st base for other games? Will O'Sullivan let him hit on the days he pitches (meaning no DH that day) and could he rest him from the field on Saturdays and just have him DH that day? Will Riopelle play 1st when Cags pitches, giving Lastres and/or Heyman a chance to start behind the plate? My guess is we want Cags' bat in the lineup every day, but that's just my speculation.

 

I think BT will be playing a lot of first, simply because Heyman and Lastres are that good, and they will both be playing a lot behind the plate. I don’t know what that does to Cags. Guessing the two of them do a lot of rotating between first and dh.

 

If Cags ends up being the Sunday starter then IMHO you can go ahead and pencil him in on the DH slot on Saturdays—I don’t see him in the field the day before his start.

 

love the info shared on the baseball team, you guys and gals are awesome

 

Florida baseball position group preview: Outfield

 

Scrimmage observations: I watched 5 innings of 6 inn. scrimmage.
It was a bit sloppy.
Ficc/Lastres for Blue (Lastres caught the whole way)
Tejeda/Heyman for Orange (Heyman moved to 1st after 3 innings , Alvarez C)
Blue infield proj. starters?: Cags, Kurland, Rivera, Halter
Orange OF possible starters: Langford, Robertson, Evans.

Ficc was not sharp. 2 innings, 2 hits, 4 walks, 4 Ks, WP.
Big hit a Langford single plating 2.
My view, Tejeda was the victim of poor/sloppy fielding. Error by Fabian extended 1st inning which Tejeda escaped and then a PB by Heyman in second allowed run to scored.
Big hit in 2nd was a Lastres blast off the leftfield wall double.
Cags hit a bomb into RF bullpen in the 3rd off Tejada but overall not a bad performance by Tejeda-- 3 innings, 3 runs (2 earned) 2 hits, 1 walk.

Before that- there were fireworks in top of 3rd with Hartzog (Blue) roughed up and inning called after only recording one out... hits from Thomas, Heyman (2B) (RBI), Fabian sigle (2 RBI) with a misplayed bloop hit to Center and a WP in the mix.
Hartzog settled down in the 4th and had a clean ining but his line was ugly: 1.1, 4 runs, 4 hits, 1 walk 1 K and WP.

On a positive note, Purnell and Finnvold both looked good in the innings I watched. Both with good movement, location and mixing up pitches.

Overall not a stellar performance today although Blue infield played well. Cags continues to impress both at the plate and in the field.
Both young catchers pounded the ball every at bat but both had less than stellar moments on D- Heyman PB allowed a run to score on third stike that would have ended the inning and on another play he double clutched allowing uncontested stolen base. Lastres, short hopped a throw on a stolen base attempt that bounced away and allowed Fabian to take 3rd. Plus, I thought Lastre could have blocked a pitch that bounced off the plate and skipped away.
And, surprisingly Langford broke poorly on a hard hit line drive that sailed over his head and could have been caught. Not the most elegant of scrimmages but hey that is why you practice and scrimmage.

 

What about Neely?