6'5" 230 lefty. There is some potential there if we have someone who can work with him.
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He's smaller than Graham Enema, just throwing a stat out there. But that does not mean that this dude will also be dead roster spot with +10 SEC ERA. Key difference is that he's a senior and 23 years old. Peaking into stats for this profile of player, they do alright. Kentucky had a little school stud last year and Duke has many Ivy transfers that became good in the ACC.
More a variable than his previous school, this dude could have overcome arm health issues and kept on chasing the dream. He did get recruited and offered by Clemson as a teenager. The 2nd highest rated recruit in South Carolina and all the players around him in the top-8 recruits were drafted. So it was not a low talent field in South Carolina.
I wouldn't say that our head coach who managed teams that went to multiple CWS and a natty is necessarily "in over his head." Now does he have some massive work to do? Yes. Is he capable of building a team like the ones he managed? We shall see. His recruiting tells me that we would get some really good players to get us back to that standard
If he was recruited/offered by Clemson, how did he end up at D2? Did he just stop performing well or was it off-the-field issues? And why did he fall so far to the D2 level, as opposed to something like the ASun or Socon?
I'm fine with him if he's not taking up much NIL or scholarship money.
He's a solid walk on type player that's worth taking a chance on. He's not gonna come in and be a weekend starter.
Pitch to contact........I'm going to guess a lof of hard contact too.......
Meh
The kid is from my neck of the woods up here in SC, but I don't keep up with HS baseball up here. He may have been highly rated coming out of HS, but where he played is about the equivalent of class 2a in MS, so the level of HS competition should have been considered in context.
Young Harris traditionally has a decent program too. I'd look at this more like a kid who went juco than D2. Heck, there a number of D2 schools in GA that if their best player wanted to transfer I'd take them - Valdosta & Georgia College have strong programs. Kennesaw was damn good back when they were in D2.
Seems like we would have the new PC before taking on projects.
I am sure this guy is excited, but the staff needs to read the room a little. Lemonis just had to talk his way out of getting fired. The next news out of the program needed to be something encouraging for the fanbase.
Level of competition has been ridiculously weak.
SEC hitters will likely carve this guy up
And, Roy Oswalt pitched at a 1 or 2 A school in the Sipp. #YouNeverKnow
Nate Lamb's Coach at Young Harris is Stephen Waggener (aka Coach Waggs). Waggs was raised in the Jackson area and comes from a Mississippi State family. He runs a great program at Young Harris and spent many years as an assistant at Delta State prior to taking the head job at Young Harris.