Gator Baseball 2020 Roster/Line-Up/Batting Order

Shane—

I get what you’re saying but I don’t think Butler’s bat gives us more than we would give up defensively—he’s just not as good around the bag as KC, at least IMHO.

 

We were winning in the past and letting guys struggle but it was not the offense that let us down this year. Even with the freshmen struggling it was not the bats

 

Exactly. Defense and pitching cost us a bunch. How many games did we lose where the offense put up 10 runs or damn near it?

Last few years 3 runs was almost a lock for a w.

 

How exactly did we learn freshman pitchers are the best place to start? I am hoping that is a typo!! Our freshman were pretty much a disappointment. None of them established themselves as a starter going forward.

 

97—

Look back at ALL of our great starters/Sully years—None were Wow their freshman years but they ALL got their feet wet and learned from their peers —like most everything, it’s a process for everyone.

 

Shore started his FR year in the weekend rotation. Faedo worked his way into it by mid-April. Randall worked his way into the weekend if memory serves.

UF has had some very successful FR pitchers but none aside from Shore (and Whitson if memory serves) that started with meaningful SEC innings.

 

Brian Johnson also started the first SEC weekend as a FR. He pitched Saturday vs MSU and Randall pitched Sunday. So from a relatively quick look-up, UF has had 4 FR start opening SEC series and not because of injuries. Whitson had injury issues; the other 3 were all very good for UF (2 2nd founders and 1 first rounder).

There is a precedent for an Allen, Barco, or Sproat to come in, do well, and get paid...

 

Agreed Greg, but there are several that seem to think if our new guys aren’t performing like JR’s they’re a failure—that’s just not the way it works outside of an exception from time to time.

 

To your point,
Exhibit A: Brady Singer
Exhibit B: Hancock at UGA

 

the info is sparse, at best the write ups so far have been the best info in a couple of weeks the stats may help get an idea

 

Cape Cod Stats
B Smith, 5 G, .333
Leftwich 1 G, 5.0 IP, 7.2 ERA
Fabian, 2 G, .200
Langworthy, 7 G, .190
Crisp, 2 G, 5.2 IP, 11.11 ERA

 

Leftwich 4 hits, 4 HRs. No triples surrendered.

Go GATORS!
,WESGATORS

 

My guess would be that historically summer league performance has little correlation to SEC performance. Summer leagues are the "bigger, faster, stronger" of college baseball.

 

For a kid(Fab) who should have played High school this year, I thought he did well.
He is a future 300 hitter, for us. Don't think we had someone that much better so get him the experience.
It should payoff next year.
Pitching I don't even try to figure that out.