Jake latz update

Damn he's probably done for the season, at least as a significant contributor.

Yeah. As long as he is here for postseason, i am happy.

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Reynolds was 100 percent in april last year and still redshirted.

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Well that's false, he was recovering from surgery.

Need to be very conservative with a pitcher's throwing arm. But as meaningless as red shirts tend to be in football, they're even more so in baseball. Who is the last 5th year SR that contributed on the baseball team? If he can help this team at all this year--I mean getting 1 ground ball with 2 outs in a regional--without risking further injury, he should come back. The decision to bring him back this year should be based 100% on his injury and if there's a chance to prevent healing, and 0% on preserving a 5th year of eligibility.

I agree the red shirt is meaningless and I wasn't implying to give him a red shirt to save eligibility because your point is dead on. My point is they will be very cautious with him and his future is more important than any game he may be able to salvage, in my opinion. I hope h can pitch this year. But as jn my previous post. I give a slim to no chance he sees the mound this year.

doubt he throws this season

He'll throw. This staff does not expect him to stay beyond his third year. They'll get what they can out of him as long as he's healthy.

Yeah if he's really "shut down" for 5 more weeks he likely won't contribute in any meaningful games. You're looking at two months before he would be ready to pitch in a game. By then you basically only have SEC games and postseason with limited rosters. We're already likely to have some pretty good pitchers left off the limited roster because of depth, they aren't likely to use a spot on an unknown at that point in the season.

In that scenario the reason for holding him out wouldn't be to save the year, it would be to not remove someone from the roster who already has an established role.

Of course if we get hit with the injury bug or others become ineffective it's a different story.

5 weeks from now is exactly halfway through SEC play. So let's say two weeks from then he's ready to go... That gives him 3 SEC series, SECt, Regionals and Supers. If he's fully healthy, and he's as good as advertised, that's plenty of time for him to contribute. Having another elite arm in postseason play is never a bad thing.

ETA: I'd also imagine a couple of guys won't be as effective at that point in the season as they are now. That's just baseball.