After 7 baseball scrimmages...

[Backwoodsdawg]

Skelton is still in the competition for catcher, hear he is better defensively than Gilbert. Gilbert i believe will be a lock for the lineup as a DH, or catcher some days.

Anyone who has seen more than 3 scrimmages knows Skelton is lazy and his mind seems to be elsewhere, some tools are there but just no desire to be the man. If we played today Gilbert is your starting catcher and probably hitting out of the 6 hole.

[The Federalist Engineer]

Anyone who has seen more than 3 scrimmages knows Skelton is lazy and his mind seems to be elsewhere, some tools are there but just no desire to be the man. If we played today Gilbert is your starting catcher and probably hitting out of the 6 hole.

Since your watching scrimmages, what do you see in Basham? Is he a future Cody Brown type of walk-on?

[Choctaw Dawg]

Anyone who has seen more than 3 scrimmages knows Skelton is lazy and his mind seems to be elsewhere, some tools are there but just no desire to be the man. If we played today Gilbert is your starting catcher and probably hitting out of the 6 hole.

Sorry, i'm just going by what I hear, I'd much rather have Gilbert in anyway due to his power is better that skelton's

[bulldogcountry1]

After watching Skelton last year, it was obvious he had a long way to go, offensively. He was very flat-footed and all arms with his swing. If Cann can make him into an everyday starter in just a few months, then we need to write him a big, fat check. It doesn't sound promising, though.

[Backwoodsdawg]

Since your watching scrimmages, what do you see in Basham? Is he a future Cody Brown type of walk-on?

Basham to be honest with you is probably the best ball blocker and quickest defender at catcher we have. His arm is average and where it lacks his quickness makes up for it on the throw down to 2nd. He needs to put on about 10 pounds of muscle. The biggest problem he is having is hitting at this level. He has a good swing but it looks like he needs to see this level of pitching a little longer to get use to it. He has a fire to him that I like too he gets after it and you can tell it means something to him so I look for him to just get better and better. And yes he reminds me a lot of Cody in a lot of ways.

[Backwoodsdawg]

Sorry, i'm just going by what I hear, I'd much rather have Gilbert in anyway due to his power is better that skelton's

Don’t be sorry Choctaw that’s just my opinion heck what I think doesn’t matter but that’s just what I’ve seen out of him. I hope for the teams sake if he can figure it out then i hope he does.