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Mklein13 said:
Rot in **** buddy rot in ****
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He spends plenty of time in **** already (i.e. Gainesville)! That is why he is so bitter! Well..... "that" and his conflictions concerning the dualities that he grapples with on a daily basis. If the troll simply acknowledged his true state and predilections, he would be happier!
 
canesproponent said:
He spends plenty of time in **** already (i.e. Gainesville)! That is why he is so bitter! Well..... "that" and his conflictions concerning the dualities that he grapples with on a daily basis. If the troll simply acknowledged his true state and predilections, he would be happier!
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Not clever. Not funny. Not original.
 
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That’s all for the 2019 draft. Amditis and Keysor have the most interesting decisions. Van Belle is probably our biggest “get” in terms of next year.
 
Mklein13 said:
He’s not gonna sign right?
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The D'Backs are the team that scares me the most in the later stages of the draft. If he wants 1st/2nd round money they very well may have that money available with over $16mill to spend. 14 of their 30 picks today were High schoolers which is unheard of. They may very well have a ton of money left to sign 11th thru 40th rounders to above slot signing bonus's.
 
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Anyone see the irony of some of the posters getting all excited about the HS prospects evading the MLB draft and coming to UM. How many times did the excuse of "we are the youngest team or our team is so young" or some variation of the youth excuse was used when things went South? Nothing wrong with bringing in talented players to reload the roster. But if they make the starting lineup, all it does is keep the "young team" excuse in play.

Which brings about another question. Is UM the only school that has this youth problem? Of all of the teams in the regionals, how many used the youth excuse when they lost?
 
HRIKN said:
Anyone see the irony of some of the posters getting all excited about the HS prospects evading the MLB draft and coming to UM. How many times did the excuse of "we are the youngest team or our team is so young" or some variation of the youth excuse was used when things went South? Nothing wrong with bringing in talented players to reload the roster. But if they make the starting lineup, all it does is keep the "young team" excuse in play.

Which brings about another question. Is UM the only school that has this youth problem? Of all of the teams in the regionals, how many used the youth excuse when they lost?
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We were the youngest team in the postseason. It was said repeatedly, if you watched the games. Our youth isn’t an excuse, it’s a reality.

But we didn’t lose because we were young, though being it didn’t help. We lost because we made some of the same mistakes the last weekend of the season that we made the first weekend.
 
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HRIKN said:
Anyone see the irony of some of the posters getting all excited about the HS prospects evading the MLB draft and coming to UM. How many times did the excuse of "we are the youngest team or our team is so young" or some variation of the youth excuse was used when things went South? Nothing wrong with bringing in talented players to reload the roster. But if they make the starting lineup, all it does is keep the "young team" excuse in play.

Which brings about another question. Is UM the only school that has this youth problem? Of all of the teams in the regionals, how many used the youth excuse when they lost?
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As Indy said, we were unusually young this year. It was talked about every broadcast - we had 0 seniors and the most underclassmen of any ACC team.

In 2020, we'll have an experienced team and a pretty balanced roster. Nobody will be calling us young next season.

And there's zero irony to fans not wanting to see HS prospects drafted. That's how the process works, for every school. You want your most talented recruits to come to campus. If they are picked in the 1st 10 rounds it's 98% certain they're gone
 
Di Mare said it in his final press conference. We were the only team without any seniors.

If Van Belle returns, and both of the drafted freshman pitchers enroll, our pitching should be comparable to our batting. We will have a top-5 batting order at worst, unless there is marked regression.

The majority of the woeful 2017 team batted well when they had Abreu, Collins and the other stellar junior (whose name escapes me) in the line-up. They will have 9 players batting over 0.300 next year.
 
HRIKN said:
Anyone see the irony of some of the posters getting all excited about the HS prospects evading the MLB draft and coming to UM. How many times did the excuse of "we are the youngest team or our team is so young" or some variation of the youth excuse was used when things went South? Nothing wrong with bringing in talented players to reload the roster. But if they make the starting lineup, all it does is keep the "young team" excuse in play.

Which brings about another question. Is UM the only school that has this youth problem? Of all of the teams in the regionals, how many used the youth excuse when they lost?
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It was just that, an excuse. Teams win with freshman all the time. We looked young bc we lacked fundamentals all year. Booting a ground ball is not a freshman mistake. Zamora wasn’t a freshman but he played like a high school freshman. The biggest difference in the high school and the college game is pitching. So why can we hit just fine as freshman, but not field ground balls?

But anyway back to your main point, she doesn’t matter. People are excited bc it’s a talent infusion. The kids everyone is hoping make it to campus are better than kids we already have on the team
 
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HRIKN said:
Nothing wrong with bringing in talented players to reload the roster. But if they make the starting lineup, all it does is keep the "young team" excuse in play.
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If your older guys keep losing their jobs to incoming freshmen year after year (to the point that you keep having the youngest team) then you either suck at developing players or recruit guys who peak too soon.
 
GAhurricane said:
So what's with Van Belle not being drafted? He pitched so well this year.
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The MLB draft is trying to marry physical skills and potential with what is required to win at that level. Van Belle was a nice pitcher for us this year (and I'm extremely happy that he is quite likely to be back), but his metrics showed a pretty average projection and his physical skills showed very little projection moving forward. Add to it his age being higher than normal for his class and the fact that a team would have to buy him out of his senior year, he isn't a great guy to draft unless he just wants to go pro (and a team can use him as org. depth like they did with Jeb the year prior), he will be a guy you take next year as a senior sign and get him to sign for basically nothing and lose very little from a potential standpoint (by having him age another year) because he is pretty much already who he is.

I think you also see the injury history baked into his price and if he has another year next year like this one, he will go in the 10th round area as a senior sign with a nice track record of ACC production.
 
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