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Originally Posted by Coach34

We have 4 guys that will be drafted in the Top 5 rounds of the MLB draft next summer. Talent should find its way to production

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"We hope."

I think we will have a chance to surprise a lot of people. We have a lot of talent and guys that play hard. Also don?t be shocked if Holmcombe looks like and early draft pick after this year

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Originally Posted by Coach34

How so? We certainly have the talent.

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Mainly because we fell off the wagon last two years, last and next to last not making Sec tourney, poor coaching and decisions. We lacked hustle at times and lack of motivation. I'm gonna pull hard for this team and no doubt we will be better, but there are some loaded teams ahead of us right now. Time for this bunch to prove they are worthy and not some paper champion wanna be's .

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Originally Posted by basedog

Mainly because we fell off the wagon last two years, last and next to last not making Sec tourney, poor coaching and decisions. We lacked hustle at times and lack of motivation. I'm gonna pull hard for this team and no doubt we will be better, but there are some loaded teams ahead of us right now. Time for this bunch to prove they are worthy and not some paper champion wanna be's .

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Correct.

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Originally Posted by basedog

I'm gonna pull hard for this team and no doubt we will be better, but there are some loaded teams ahead of us right now. Time for this bunch to prove they are worthy and not some paper champion wanna be's .

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agree completely

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Originally Posted by KOdawg1

I'm just taking a wait and see approach before I place any sort of expectations on this team. I thought we would be decent in 2022. We weren't. I thought we would be improved in 2023. We weren't.

Kohler will be better than Alford, but he had a high K% in the AAC. His glove will be better.

We're relying on some hitters who don't have much experience or production. Not saying they can't do it, but we're having to hope.

We got some decent arms with potential but are far from proven. I acknowledged Parker should help. I just don't think he helps so much that we're back in a super regional yet.

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Im with you. Everyone should be on the wait and see and most people including me have been on the fire Lemonis train

I'd go with this to start the season:

Mershon 2B
Larry LF
Hines 1B
Jordan RF
Kohler 3B
Hugesak CF
Highfill C
Chance DH
Cupp SS

F- Holcombe
S- Loo
Su- ????

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Originally Posted by KOdawg1

I'm just taking a wait and see approach before I place any sort of expectations on this team. I thought we would be decent in 2022. We weren't. I thought we would be improved in 2023. We weren't.

Kohler will be better than Alford, but he had a high K% in the AAC. His glove will be better.

We're relying on some hitters who don't have much experience or production. Not saying they can't do it, but we're having to hope.

We got some decent arms with potential but are far from proven. I acknowledged Parker should help. I just don't think he helps so much that we're back in a super regional yet.

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Dakota and Hines are very dangerous. Hunter could hit 25 home runs this year. Highfill is a good hitter and will be better. Mershon played a lot. We get Larry back and he is solid. Bryce Chance was one of our better hitters against SEC competition. Hujsack should have played more than he did. He had a strong summer.

Kohler should give us what Alford did but with better defense. He hit SEC pitching well last year at Memphis- I believe he hit a home run against us and Ole Miss. Cupp is really the only inexperienced hitter we have and he was thought to be a potential first round pick. He's not your typical recruit.

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Originally Posted by KOdawg1

"We hope."

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Dakota, Colby, Nate Dohm, and Hunter Hines. They'll be drafted there regardless of how we do next season.

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Originally Posted by BuckyIsAB****

Im with you. Everyone should be on the wait and see and most people including me have been on the fire Lemonis train

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Lemonis is not a Tony LaRussa type. How well he does is based on how good his assistants are. He makes out the lineup card, recruits, talks to the media, and runs practice.

And for baseball- that's Ok. That's all we really need.

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Originally Posted by Coach34

I dont see us sitting Larry to play Chance.

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I think both will play. Larry might dh if Cupp and Mershon win the middle infield jobs. But I expect Larry to start at second.
Chance is a better outfielder than Larry right now. Maybe Larry can close that gap in the spring.

We?ll be 3-9 at best heading into UGA series- it?ll be an uphill climb

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Originally Posted by Todd4State

Dakota, Colby, Nate Dohm, and Hunter Hines. They'll be drafted there regardless of how we do next season.

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Yeah, I wasn't arguing that

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Originally Posted by Todd4State

Dakota and Hines are very dangerous. Hunter could hit 25 home runs this year. Highfill is a good hitter and will be better. Mershon played a lot. We get Larry back and he is solid. Bryce Chance was one of our better hitters against SEC competition. Hujsack should have played more than he did. He had a strong summer.

Kohler should give us what Alford did but with better defense. He hit SEC pitching well last year at Memphis- I believe he hit a home run against us and Ole Miss. Cupp is really the only inexperienced hitter we have and he was thought to be a potential first round pick. He's not your typical recruit.

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I mean all that is great and all but we're still doing a lot of hoping. Not saying it won't happen but I'm just going to have to see it first. My benefit of the doubt went out the window when we won 18 conference games in 2 years

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Originally Posted by Todd4State

Dakota, Colby, Nate Dohm, and Hunter Hines. They'll be drafted there regardless of how we do next season.

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So will Loo

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Originally Posted by Todd4State

The number one thing we needed was a pitching coach.

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This is absolutely the truth. By far our number one need. Seems like we scored on that for sure.

We will be better but that's not saying much when you finished next to last in the league. The top part of the order should be fine but if we get one or two people hurt we could be in trouble. Pitching is still a question mark. There are some decent arms but that doesn't equate to being a good pitcher.

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Originally Posted by Coach34

We should be pretty good. Top of the batting order is Top 3 in the country. Defense should be pretty good

Comes down to pitching. Holcombe supposedly made a big jump in the Fall. We get 2 more quality arms back in Simmons and Auger. New PC has been impressive to everyone.

Let's roll

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Remind me who this is and how they are top three? Not arguing with you because I'm never deep into baseball and checked out completely last year, but I didn't think we had top three talent across any three or four players. And I would have assumed there would be three big spenders on NIL that would keep us out of the top three even if we improved a lot.

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Originally Posted by Johnson85

Remind me who this is and how they are top three? Not arguing with you because I'm never deep into baseball and checked out completely last year, but I didn't think we had top three talent across any three or four players. And I would have assumed there would be three big spenders on NIL that would keep us out of the top three even if we improved a lot.

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Dakota Jordan and Hunter Hines are two of the three - Dakota is a Top 50 MLB prospect and I think Hines is top 100

Baseball is still won with pitching and defense. Offensively, we’re going to be good. We have a chance to be good defensively. Pitching is where we have to wait and see.