Lets recreate Thunder and Lightning

[cheewgumm]

Bat Parker after Reese.

Also

1 - permanently move Chance to lead off.
2 - get ready to move Bauer into rotation. Maybe a couple more weeks.

Youre welcome

[parabrave]

Rather move Parker to 2nd and maybe Reese 3td

[cheewgumm]

Sounds good

Also make James the catcher - he makes same # of mistakes but way better hitter.

[Todd4State]

With Teel out we'll see some changes. I suspect we'll see Bevis, Wyers, Vito, and Nunnalee more if I had to guess.

[BigDawg81]

With Teel out we'll see some changes. I suspect we'll see Bevis, Wyers, Vito, and Nunnalee more if I had to guess.
What is the word about Teel?

[Coach34]

What is the word about Teel?

Bone bruise. Day to day

[Coach34]

Sounds good

Also make James the catcher - he makes same # of mistakes but way better hitter.

I dont ever want to see James catch again. He is terrible. He is a 2nd/3rd baseman

[State82]

Bone bruise. Day to day

The dreaded day to day prognosis.

[Quaoarsking]

I dont ever want to see James catch again. He is terrible. He is a 2nd/3rd baseman

I think he's earned another chance, or more accurately the other catchers have earned it for him.

[EdwardDrayton]

Great idea! I think Will and Rafael can win a spot in this lineup. *****

[Todd4State]

I think we go back with Milewski. He had a bad weekend. Raymond and James have been bad all season.

[Gmoney]

Did I not read before the season started that Oak said Peter Mershon caught Bauer better than any other catcher. If so why not give him a try at catching. At this point Stevie Wonder is better than what we have seen so far.

[Homedawg]

I dont ever want to see James catch again. He is terrible. He is a 2nd/3rd baseman

This. He's bad back there.

[Homedawg]

I think he's earned another chance, or more accurately the other catchers have earned it for him.

He has more passes balls than the other two added together. In less chances. He's awful catching. He can hit I'll say that

[KOdawg1]

I think Chone is probably our starting 2B next year

[Todd4State]

I think Chone is probably our starting 2B next year

He reminds me a lot of Hunter Stovall.

[Pancho]

So Chone plays 2nd. Woodson plays 3rd? Who plays SS and 1st base next year?

[Coach34]

So Chone plays 2nd. Woodson plays 3rd? Who plays SS and 1st base next year?

Portals will be needed. Losing a ton of position players

[Todd4State]

So Chone plays 2nd. Woodson plays 3rd? Who plays SS and 1st base next year?

SS is probably going to be Woodson. But there is an outside chance it could be Rocco Maniscalco if he comes to school and yes there is some draft risk there too.

[Todd4State]

Portals will be needed. Losing a ton of position players

For sure. We'll need a catcher and some corner infield players and a DH at the bare minimum. Depending on what happens with the draft too. Outfield is probably going to be Parker, Nunnalee, and Mershon but we'll probably add 1-2 more guys like Vito.

[Cruz]

I don?t think Woodson is going to hold SS. He is a liability there and I hope we bring in a stud and move him to 3rd. Chone at 2nd. Get a stud 1b, dh and a few OF. I hope Nunnalee figures it out but he has just not been good to this point. And we need to sub Bevis for Reed for a few games. Reed is slumping bad.

[Cruz]

We will have Raymond back, but hopefully we bring in a catcher that can do it all. I miss Logan Tanner.

[Todd4State]

I don?t think Woodson is going to hold SS. He is a liability there and I hope we bring in a stud and move him to 3rd. Chone at 2nd. Get a stud 1b, dh and a few OF. I hope Nunnalee figures it out but he has just not been good to this point. And we need to sub Bevis for Reed for a few games. Reed is slumping bad.

I'd be good moving Ryder to third next year honestly. Not sure they make that move for his draft year though. Rocco is definitely capable of playing SS if he comes to school. I agree about Bevis and Reed.

[The Federalist Engineer]

Portals will be needed. Losing a ton of position players

That's what the roster is made of today, portals.

C- 2 Portals
1B- 3
2B- 2
SS- 1 + JUCO
2B- 1
LF- Homeboy
CF- 1
RF - 1+ HS

Only 2 High School recruits play the field. Parker and Chance.

The 2027 portal class probably won't have any Cavaliers, so it will be interesting to see. The tell seems to be the dudes that Kirby and McMullin follow on twitter. Kirby needs to lurk on Will Coggins twitter, start recruiting the Angola State Prison kids. Wonder if Elander players start leaving in big numbers. The kids came for Vitello, not him.

[Todd4State]

That's what the roster is made of today, portals.

C- 2 Portals
1B- 3
2B- 2
SS- 1 + JUCO
2B- 1
LF- Homeboy
CF- 1
RF - 1+ HS

Only 2 High School recruits play the field. Parker and Chance.

The 2027 portal class probably won't have any Cavaliers, so it will be interesting to see. The tell seems to be the dudes that Kirby and McMullin follow on twitter. Kirby needs to lurk on Will Coggins twitter, start recruiting the Angola State Prison kids. Wonder if Elander players start leaving in big numbers. The kids came for Vitello, not him.

I could see us getting a player or two from Tennessee. Trent Grindlinger is a catcher for Tennessee who was a long time commit who decommitted after Lemonis was fired. He wanted to play for Vitello. His brother is also committed to Tennessee but is a draft risk.

Noah Franco at TCU has had some injuries this year at TCU but is another former commit that had a solid freshman season. I wouldn't mind taking a flyer on him as a dual position player. May be expensive though. But he could fill a need at 1B/DH/OF and pitch in relief.

[Todd4State]

And this is a bit revisionist history but as far as all of the Virginia players I have to wonder if guys like Eric Becker and Henry Ford would be on our team if we had BOC as our coach two years ago. Who knows?

But BOC has said before that the plan is once things are settled into place to rely on the portal less and depend on players that we have developed more. I actually think that is a good way to go because we know we can recruit at an elite level. And doing that would in theory potentially save NIL over the long run to put all of our eggs into the basket of a Paul Skenes type portal talent which I think we would be interested in regardless.