2026 baseball roster thread

I guess I'm more optimistic than most but time will tell. Everyone else lost something too

 

HUGE loss. Only lefty with any major experience and by far our best lefty option next year. This one stings!!

 

I think King more than exceeded expectations. And whenever he pitched he was really good,didn’t matter what night. More than just one of the best Freshman in the country. Ended up being a top 10 SEC pitcher- ERA showed that. We have a true Friday or Saturday guy in King. Not much seems to faze him. His moxy and overall makeup are very special.

Peterson was inconsistent and needs to become a dominant starter. Hopefully takes that step forward next year over 4 ERA really surprised me as I thought he’d be in the low 3’s.

 

Excuse my french...
SACRE BLEU!!!!

 

Ok @jdgator —

I’ve been thinking about this for a couple of days waiting to get my thoughts together. A lot of folks are more than willing to throw Sully and staff under the bus with respect to how our pitchers are either developed or take to mechanical changes to enhance their development and game.

I can’t say that I haven’t been frustrated with seeing the same issues (mechanically) remain to be seen and repeated.

However in looking past gripes ahead to our team’s future successes I have tried to see the true height of the hurdles the coaches have to deal with and overcome.

The transfer portal is (IMHO) the main reason for these hurdles getting so high or challenging.

There is no real sense of commitment from players in general anymore. The grass is always greener….The playing time is not what I want…..I can get more NIL $$$ by going in the portal…..

Now, think back with me to the years before the transfer portal became “the thing”—Sully’s track record developing pitchers was the envy of practically every D-1 baseball program. It spoke for itself.

By and large it’s apparent that most players are more than willing to use the transfer portal chip over putting the work in and busting your butt to get better.

I know, I know—I’m right back to my ol’school background—because I know it works!

No, I don’t have a magic answer, but I do have 20 years of coaching under my belt and am trying to figure out how for Sully to keep our program successful while dodging all the land mines (challenges).

 

Haven't read any posts but healthy Menendez would've meant at least another win or two this year. I do wonder how healthy he'll end up being coming off tj and this is his third year.

 

Did u coach at Omega Park . Did u remember me or were u gone by then ?

 

Now how could anybody possibly forget you wing???

 

Was the park where the Middleburg Atheltic Assn. had T-ball and baseball teams called Omega Park? That name seems familiar. If so, I coached there from 1989-1996. Pretty sure I don't remember you. I coached T-ball the first 2 years and I think the most fun I ever had out there was hand-picking a group of 7 year old T-ballers for an All-Star team in 1991 that played in T-Ball tournaments all around NE FL that summer. These kids didn't hit off Tees, coaches pitched underhanded. But they could catch fly balls, field grounders, make good throws to first and were starting to understand the game. I asked a couple other guys to help me, we had fun practices and the kids, coaches and parents all got along and had a great time. In the summer of 1995, Dell Hoard, Jimmy Jett and I coached the 11 & 12 year old All Star team that finished state runners-up.

 

Strange, and a loss for sure - but not sure about a huge loss. I didn't think he'd be available until April at best?

 

Don’t really know how Menendez was classified—true power pitchers are normally 20-24 months back to true game speed. Thumpers are usually around 16-18 months in my experience.

 

I know both Dell and Jimmy. The son Dell owns a restaurant in Middleburg off Blanding

 

Not sure .. I was around.. it’s ok . Maybe 1 less person to hate me

 

I knew that about Dell, Jr. He played baseball for a small college in Georgia I think. Jimmy Jett's son Tyler and Dell, Jr. were a year older than our son. I only knew Hoard and Jett from the ballpark. I haven't seen either of them in probably 30 years.

 

That kid knows how to pitch,

If you have command of multiple pitches you don't need to throw mid-90's and up.

Sully does stock his roster with kids that can light up radar guns but King shows that you don't need that if you have multiple pitches in your arsenal.

 

King definitely has a strong dose of command/control/ and confidence to go along with that arsenal.