Gator Baseball 2023 Official Roster Tracker/Lineup???

I just put Sproat since he's been the Friday starter and Sully doesn't like to make many starting pitcher changes unless something like the weather changes it for him. I prefer holding your best for the better competition and chancing it when you can. Trouble is as soon as you do fate happens and everyone wonders why you left best sitting on the bench.

 

I think we all know FA&M hits really well against Tejeda, Jameson, and Purnell. Now we will find out how they hit against one of our weekend starters and guys like Slater and Abner, if needed. For what its worth Hartzog made an appearance in the last game we played and went 1 inning with no hits and only facing 3 batters in 17 pitches. We get a good lead ole Clete might get another chance. The Rattlers only trouble is we hit better against them with 4 doubles and 3 homeruns. I doubt they will start Jared Townsend again who went 2 innings and gave up 11 runs against us.

 

From Sully's presser today this sounds like the lineup we go with. As Sully said the only decision left is 3B.
P Caglianone
C Riopelle
1B Heyman
2B Kurland
SS Rivera
3B TBD Halter or Thomas
LF Langford
CF Robertson
RF Shelnut

Which makes the batting order easy to pick...
Kurland
Langford
Cags/DH
Rivera
Riopelle
Shelnut
Heyman
Halter or Thomas
Robertson

FAMU has announced a RHP to start. Waiting to see which way that effects the 3B decision if at all.

 

Some of you have been asking about the recruits coming in with the portal now open and the draft upcoming. So here is the link that Ocala sent some time ago that I keep posted at the bottom of post #1.
2023 Signees
A look at Florida baseball's 2023 recruiting class
My take, the strength of the class is with the pitchers, 11 of them in all and several are LHP as well. The unknown as usual will be the ones we don't get. Sully has an excellent reputation keeping pitchers so let's hope most all of them make it in. What's best is many of these pitchers are from pipeline schools like Stoneman Douglas, Calvary Christian, North Marion that are perennial powerhouses. Fielder wise we got a few infielders, a few outfielders, so Sully will be looking to fill a catcher spot this summer. I know little about the fielders but I am intrigued that we got another from IMG. Could he be a replacement for Rivera, tough to say, but we will have to see if he wants to stay with the program or be a portal hopper in time. Several pitchers are listed as outfielders as well but we don't have many spots to fill so look for them focus on pitching first.

 

Hey @ocalaman, I believe you posted over the weekend about CFC winning the JuCo championship. Do you know if they used Karl Hartman, Gator transfer, much this past year?
28 Karl Hartman RHP 6-3 220 R/R FR Merritt Island, Fla. / Rockledge*** Transferred to Central Florida College

 

My first look back at South Carolina shows me they are mainly a RHP team. They have 3 LHP and only Matthew Becker is a key starter for Game 3. The other 2 LHP have not thrown much. So most of our approach needs to be ready for RHP. Their main starters are Becker, Mahoney, and Sanders but Sanders was coming out of the bullpen his last 2 appearances. Hicks, normally a reliever, has started instead and done very well. Becker and Sanders usually do not last long like 3-5 innings and Mahoney goes more like 5-6. Their team ERA is just under 4.2 and the Gators are just above 4.6. Forecast calls for 50% chance of rain most everyday so that might factor into how these games play out.

SC hits at .275 and the Gators are at .294. Most here know SC has been struggling down the stretch but won 3 straight in their Regional and they swept us in Columbia earlier this season. I wish we had current side to side hitting numbers that might affect which players start. For instance Colby Halter went 1 for 11 in the series at Columbia but most of our guys struggled. Even Wyatt Langford, who was our leadoff all three games in the series, went 2 for 11. Riopelle was hitless in 10 at bats. Our two best hitters that series were Heyman and Kurland, each getting 4 hits, batting 5th and 6th in the lineup.

South Carolina is 10-10 on the road and 7-8 in SEC road games. 5 of those road wins came at Georgia and Miss State. Can the Gators capitalize on their home record of 33-6 and their 12-3 home SEC record? All three of our Gators starting pitchers took a loss in Columbia. Can each of them turn it around and improve their performance to bring home the win? Does Sully continue to help the offense with aggressive baserunning and dropping a few down instead of playing homerun ball against another homerun team? But most importantly, do the Gator fans show up in a bigger way than ever before to support the efforts of this team that won't quit?
Go Gators!!!