My argument isn't because he only had one great year, my argument was his resume doesn't match Graveman's. What a retarded inference to make.....
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Westy was pretty good, but his draft position is a way more influential than his actual performance
Jacob Robson-2015 was electric when healthy, like Skinner with a 350 batting average and CF quality defense skills
CT Bradford-2014 was also very good and hit 300 with a dead bat, like 340 with the current bat and ball. Great defense. Team leader too.
Gavin Collins -2016, Tanner Allen-2019, and Gridley- 2019 are all better than Westy. Allen hit 350 in 2019 with more HRs.
Also missing are clutch heros like McNamee and Cody Brown
No doubt westy could pull an air mail out of his ass on occasion but I think he makes plays that Frazier can?t. Routine grounder or a ball needing charged then Frazier is fine. In the hole either way or overall athleticism then I?ll take westy.
God I love baseball...
His ability to log those long innings as our SAT starter allowed the pen to be more geared up to be used on FRI and SUN in the series. Don't forget at one point in that year he went back to back to back 9-inning Complete Games for wins against Florida, Texas A&M, and Arkansas.
It was Graveman who after us starting off league play 0-2 vs LSU balled up Mason Katz and set the tone for the year with a huge win.
You can't leave Graveman off the all-decade team if you have any sense of MSU Baseball.
Closer- Sims. It's kind of unfair to judge him on a COVID year.
Set-up- Holder
Relief ace- Lindgren
Arm angle guy- Girodo
Fri- Hudson
Sat- Small
Sun- Stratton
Midweek- Graveman
C- Kruger
1B- Lowe
2B- Foscue
3B- Jarrod Parks
SS- Frazier
LF- Rooker
CF- Mangum
RF- Renfroe
DH- Tanner Allen
PH- MacNamee
PR- Robson
UTL- Westburg
No way Sims isn't on there somewhere.
Hudson had better stuff than Graveman, he just did. Now, it could certainly be argued that Graveman had the overall better career (I think he was 19-13 overall/8-5 his senior year) and Hudson did pitch sparingly his first two years but his junior year he was outstanding. He did lose to Arizona 1-0 in the Supers and was outdueled by Bobby Dalbec. That guy almost single handedly beat us in that Super.
Even with his Senior year with the new ball, he had a better career than anybody on the list. He completely hacked BBCOR and Raised Seam baseballs.
He basically saved 2014 and became an SEC starter for us. He pitched more innings, had more wins and a better ERA than Stratton, Hudson, and Graveman.
In 2013.....Mitchell was 13-0 with a 1.53 ERA, pitched in Omaha, Super Regionals, and SEC.
If you include him on the team of the Decade you gotta make people swing the 2013 Bat and let Ross toss the funky 2013 Ball.
By the way, if Renfroe had Rooker's bat and ball from 2017, he would have hit 390 with 48 HRs, but more likely, he would have intentionally walked 120 times in 210 season at bats.
That's not the point of an all-decade team. It's about the accomplishments for your school. Brandon Woodruff has better stuff than both of them but I wouldn't put him on the all-decade team.
Graveman's accomplishments over a whole career but especially 2013 far outweigh Hudson's 2016.
Multiple seasons of significant contributions
Huge LSU win after we started 0-2 in league play.
Back to Back to Back SEC complete game wins over quality teams (Arkansas, Florida, Texas A&M)
3-0 in the 2013 postseason and we won his other Omaha start.
Seems like there's probably some recency bias there, in particular putting Westburg at DH. He obviously was good for us, but seems like we could get a better bat in the lineup with DH. I admittedly can't come up wtih anybody better off hand, but I question whether Foscue is the best we can do at 3B.
Of course it's also hard because of the changes to the ball. Can't leave Mitchell off if you're talking about production, but not sure he would have been anything special with the newer balls.