Quote Originally Posted by The Federalist Engineer View Post
All teams are losing big players. UGA will never see another Condon ever again. LSU will be looking for a Skenes and never find him again. Losing Tommy Tanks too. Vandy is on the long road back to normal. Florida losing Caglione and others.

That said, I don't see how MSU is heading to anything special next year. Portal sucks thus far. Pitching is ok-ish, got Pico, Ligon, Dotson, and maybe Loftin can finally play. There are some prospects on the mound. But only one dude is known to be good. People saying that Holcombe has no chance of returning.
If this was August instead of June I would be a bit concerned but as it is right now it's still June. No one knows what we or anyone else will have for that matter.

What we do know- based on history- is that we have the same fears about the portal every year, we miss on a Braden Montgomery and everyone melts down, and then at the end of the day we have met all of our portal needs and then we end up with a solid team at the end of the day. I think that's what the experts expect out of us at the moment at least that are making predictions. It seems like a lot of our fans expect Lemonis to fail and be fired while the experts expect us to be pretty good and that's quite a discrepancy.

We do need to get as many arms as we can. But if Parker is the wizard we all think he is then we should be fine next year with whatever it is that we end up with. And I find it really hard to believe that we completely crap out on pitchers in the portal.

Technically we have already filled the holes with our positional players through the portal plus guys that we have coming back so we're actually in some ways playing with house money at this point although we certainly need more.

C- Highfill/Powell
1B- Stahlman
2B- Reeves
3B- Frei
SS- Cupp
LF- Chance
CF- Pulliam
RF- Stevens
DH- Sullivan

That's probably our worst case scenario right now. Obviously I left off Mershon and Dante Nori.

I've already touched on pitching- but our rotation right now might be Simmons, Pico, and Stevens. Ligon and Gavin Black has been pitching pretty well in the Cape and we have Schuelke coming back too.

The reality is there is going to be a lot more turnover in college baseball when you have teams coveting seniors from the portal to make a run every year. We're not immune to that.