Fall Baseball Scrimmage #15 10/24/17

Jake's having a good fall. Hope he carries it over into the spring.

And thanks for the reports. Keep'em coming.

how has Slaughter played at 3B?

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Thanks for all the updates.

Austin Bain has been playing 2nd since Rakin Woley has been out.

Jake Slaughter has played well at 3rd this fall. He had a good play today on a grounder outside the line with a good jump throw to 1st to get Doolittle by a step.

Scuba have you seen Labas pitch yet? Heard he is a beast coming in, was hoping he could challenge for a prominent role this year. He's a big kid.

I’ve seen Labas twice, and I’ve been very impressed. He doesn’t blow you away with the fastball, but his command of all three pitches is rare for an incoming freshman. He spots the fastball on both sides of the plate, can throw the breaking ball for first pitch strikes and commands his changeup very, very well. He was 1-2 to Cabrera Tuesday and threw two changeups just below the zone. Cabrera laid off both. So he threw a 3-2 changeup, in the zone this time, and got Cabrera out in front for a routine ground ball to second.

When you can command that pitch, it makes an 89 mph fastball that much better.

Obviously this class is bigger than most, so you expect more “hits”, but it looks like there are some really good freshman arms in this class.

Nice to see Todd Peterson have a good outing the other day. I really think he will be a key to this staff and how the rest of the staff shakes out.

Fontenot and Hilliard will have roles somewhere on the weekend.