SUMMER BALL

I'd be interested in seeing a study on how predictive summer league performance is for returning college players. There are individual success stories we tend to remember (Pete Alonso had a monster season in the Northwoods League one summer), but it would be interesting to see if solid summer league performances consistently carried over to college.

 

McDonald was the starting pitcher for Wareham last night and had his best outing going 5 innings allowing no hits and one unearned run.

Christian Rodriguez has still yet to give up a run over 12.1 innings and has 13 strikeouts. His success on the Cape this summer has to give him heavy consideration to be the closer as UF enter fall practice. Unfortunately, Luke McNeillie has struggled his last couple starts and his ERA has risen to 5.68 with command still being the major problem (eight walks in 12.2 IP).

 

With regards to McNeille that almost sounds like he just throwing pissed off rather than trying to pitch through a rough stretch while re-establishing command and confidence. Not the mindset needed to be gaining command/confidence.

 

Bingo.

Big difference between throwing and pitching.