New Baseball Commit

[MsStateBaseball]

LHP Ethan Small from Lexington Tenn. He is class of 2015. He is 6-3 175 and it rated by PG as #2 lefty in Tenn behind Trysten Barlow who is also committed to us. Small is the 18th commit for 2015. He also plays for the Dulin Dodger team in the summer.

[baseballfan]

This guy is a great find. His Jupiter numbers were awesome. I heard he's being looked at to get drafted

LHP Ethan Small from Lexington Tenn. He is class of 2015. He is 6-3 175 and it rated by PG as #2 lefty in Tenn behind Trysten Barlow who is also committed to us. Small is the 18th commit for 2015. He also plays for the Dulin Dodger team in the summer.

[maroonmania]

Seems like TN has become quite the recruiting ground for us.

[DistrictDawg92]

Just curious for anyone who knows, on average, how many kids does a baseball program sign per year? And how many scholarships on average can a program afford to split up between a signing class?

[MSUDawg4Life]

Wow. If we can just get all of these guys on campus, we're going to have a dominant team.

[engie]

Just curious for anyone who knows, on average, how many kids does a baseball program sign per year? And how many scholarships on average can a program afford to split up between a signing class?

"Numbers that work themselves out". Cohen finds ways to get great players here -- and we are creative in how we do it. There's a reason team GPA has gone through the roof since he got here...

The entire baseball team shares 11.7 athletic scholarships. In theory, they split about 4 per class. In reality, we have a ton of "walk ons" that we never know about that are on academic/leadership aid, in many cases getting higher percentage scholarships than the "baseball" scholly guys. Cohen treats them all the same -- "commits" and "signs" them all the same giving them all the same highschool "day in the sun" -- then gives them all equal chances to play. The only guys we ever "know" the scholarship situation with are JUCO walk-ons, who can redshirt and not count against our numbers -- and the only reason we "know" that is purely procedural...

We "committed" this guy -- 2 weeks later, he's throwing consistently in the low 90s and having PG profiles written on him. He's got Girodo written all over him -- with a little better projectability on his fastball...