He is amazing. Does he go to the bigs as a slugger or pitcher?
2023 Baseball & Softball Thread
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I think both. Ohtani style. He’s too good at both to shut him down in either.
I don’t think it’s hyperbole to say that if Jac were Just a pitcher or just a hitter going into his Jr year he’d be in the No 1 pick discussion for either.
That is true. It took Georgia beating LSU as well for that to happen. In the SEC standings Florida & Arkansas finish 20-10, LSU 19-10.
Vandy was down like 8-2 in the sixth inning last night and came back to win. Pretty great weekend for UF!
SEC CHAMPS! No. 4 Gators Top No. 19 Wildcats for 2023 SEC Regular Season Crown - Florida Gators
The 2023 Florida Gators are the SEC Regular Season Co-Champions as well as the No. 1 overall seed for the SEC Tournament in Hoover, Ala.
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Incredible accomplishment to finish at the top of this league this year. Probably half the National seeds and half the regional hosts this year will come from the SEC.
Being a lefty and bringing it at 99 mph there is no way he doesn’t get a shot at pitching. As for hitting…well I think his numbers speak for themselves.
Gators Fall to No. 9-seed Stanford; Set to Face Winner of LMU & Long Beach State - Florida Gators
Florida will play the winner of LMU and Long Beach State later today in an elimination game on ESPN+.
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Aside from LSU pitcher Skenes, the rest of their rotation is meh but they hit the living sheeit out of the ball.
Gators Advance to Palo Alto Regional Championship with Win Over LMU - Florida Gators
Florida will face regional host No. 9-seed Stanford at 1 p.m. (PT)/4 p.m. (ET) Sunday in the NCAA Palo Alto Regional Championship and will need to defeat the Cardinal
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UF Softball worst season of the Tim Walton era, no matter how they try to spin it. Lots of changes needed to the program.
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Florida Exits Palo Alto Regional with Defeat to No. 9-Seed Stanford - Florida Gators
The Gators concluded the 2023 season with a .315 batting average, which is the highest team batting average since 2011 and ranks fifth best all-time in program history.
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Pitching was awful and we could not hit when faced with top pitching. Great recruiting class coming in next season, but he will need to hit the portal. No panic, just one year removed from CWS.UF Softball worst season of the Tim Walton era, no matter how they try to spin it. Lots of changes needed to the program.
Florida Exits Palo Alto Regional with Defeat to No. 9-Seed Stanford - Florida Gators
The Gators concluded the 2023 season with a .315 batting average, which is the highest team batting average since 2011 and ranks fifth best all-time in program history.
We had 20 players on this team's roster. Most teams have more than that, some as many as 24-26. 8 of that 20 are leaving due to graduation and with the 6 incoming freshmen, that puts the roster at 18. My guess is that a few of our girls will hit the transfer portal, so Coach Walton has plenty of room to hit the transfer portal hard to bring in some SEC-quality players. With only Lexie Delbrey and Olivia Gigante returning as pitchers to go with the 2 highly touted freshmen, he needs to find another pitcher or two with experience who can compete in the SEC. Plus an additional position player or two. He has a lot of work to do to get this team back to an elite level including, I think, a change in assistant coaches.
The return of the pitching coach to OK (Rocha) was a real kick in the nutts for coach Walton.... ☹
I agree with the pitcher room needing a boost, and maybe getting a better pitching coach. I hope that those 2 Fr pitchers coming in are a big part of the solution....
(Haeger/Barnhill quality)
I agree with the pitcher room needing a boost, and maybe getting a better pitching coach. I hope that those 2 Fr pitchers coming in are a big part of the solution....
(Haeger/Barnhill quality)
Agree. On another board somebody mentioned that UF's Rylee Trlicek and FSU's Kathryn Sandercock were on the same USA National team coming out of high school. Neither was the ace, but Sandercock hardly saw the circle, while Trlicek got significant pitching time. Fast forward now and see which pitcher improved the most from their time at their respective schools. Sandercock is a 2-year All American who just threw a perfect game to get her team to the Supers and Rylee, while a great kid, gives it her all, etc., is pretty much the same pitcher who threw for the Gators as a freshman. Lack of player development, especially with our pitchers, has been a major problem since Jen Rocha left for a significant pay raise to go back to Oklahoma.
PLAYER of the year. Not pitcher not hitter not fielder, PLAYER of the year. This should have been a slam dunk. The committee totally whiffed on this one.
I would love to hear the argument for crews over Cags. It’s not even close. Just on hitting Cags wins it. Crews plays a good centerfield but Cags was a freaking weekend starter on a team that won the SEC! How many Sunday starters went 6-3?
These guys all voted a month ago when LSU was supposed to be the best team in the country. Most of the votes were probably in before Cags pitched the Gators to the SEC title. Lazy and embarrassing.
Hopefully cags gets pissed and goes on a kill crazy rampage for the next month.
These guys all voted a month ago when LSU was supposed to be the best team in the country. Most of the votes were probably in before Cags pitched the Gators to the SEC title. Lazy and embarrassing.
Hopefully cags gets pissed and goes on a kill crazy rampage for the next month.
The media always had an ass kiss fest for LSU. Just look back to the 2017 WCS title game.
Wonder how we’ll handle pitching in the SECT? I expect like midweek games. Be interesting to see if Sully tries to get some guys some work.
My guess is that he'll start Ryan Slater tonight against Alabama. Then maybe back to his regular weekend rotation after that. While they want to win, he's not going to overtax his pitchers and wants them rested for Regionals next week. I expect to see B.T. Riopelle not catching every game in the SECT for the same reason.
Yeah not really sure that doing good or doing poor at the SECT is going to affect our national seed too much. I think we’ve proven through our schedule that we are a national seed for sure if not even top 4 no matter what.
We’ve probably locked up a top 4 seed. With a couple wins we’d probably have a shot at No 1. Will be interesting.
Just read on another board that Hurston Waldrep is going to start today.
Their infield defense is crazy. They’ve made outs for the most part but they make every ground ball an adventure.
