Todd4State
05-12-2018, 12:50 AM
Wasn’t Nate Lowe a JUCO?
I would take his bat in this lineup in a New York second. Go back and check out his numbers.
We had one year where the JUCO's worked out well for us and we won the SEC. That would qualify as an exception. We've also had the 2014 team with JUCO's that struggled at the plate, the 2015 team with JUCO's that had a losing season, and right now we only have one JUCO that has contributed consistently all year on our current team at a consistent reasonable level the past two seasons in Gilbert.
Lowe and Kruger were also D-I players before they went JUCO and we picked them up. We've actually had better success with grad transfers overall in a very small sample size- France and Neff- than we have with JUCO players.
There are good JUCO players out there but we rely on them way too much. I'd much rather take a guy like Cody Brown out of high school, redshirt them and develop them. On the high end of that Rooker and Renfroe were players that we developed as well.
I would take his bat in this lineup in a New York second. Go back and check out his numbers.
We had one year where the JUCO's worked out well for us and we won the SEC. That would qualify as an exception. We've also had the 2014 team with JUCO's that struggled at the plate, the 2015 team with JUCO's that had a losing season, and right now we only have one JUCO that has contributed consistently all year on our current team at a consistent reasonable level the past two seasons in Gilbert.
Lowe and Kruger were also D-I players before they went JUCO and we picked them up. We've actually had better success with grad transfers overall in a very small sample size- France and Neff- than we have with JUCO players.
There are good JUCO players out there but we rely on them way too much. I'd much rather take a guy like Cody Brown out of high school, redshirt them and develop them. On the high end of that Rooker and Renfroe were players that we developed as well.