re: Baseball Talk, what’s your starting lineup?

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Im just glad we have all these issues to discuss compared to the previous seasons issues

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Like starting a guy on Fridays who threw 87-88 from the right side and his primary pitch was a curve?

And this isnt digging at Hilliard, he stepped up as he had to. Just shows where we're at now compared to last year which is nuts from a pitching standpoint.

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Stopped reading when I saw the #1 hole. Have a nice day, inspector.

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You're a special kind of stupid.

I haven’t gotten anything more than 4th OF vibes from Stevenson. Ruddell also outplayed him this fall, too.

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even if Neal is the better overall option, for Jay to keep from exposing him too much especially early for conference teams to get too much of a book on him.

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You are making this way too complex. CJJ doesn't care if conference teams get a book on his catcher. CJJ is gearing for the post season where everyone will have a book on everyone else.

Stevenson must turn into a gold glover at practice

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I think a lot of people is holding onto the Stevenson name.

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Yeah, I think it's likely that Stevenson gets beaten out by Kling. I also think it's likely that Thompson holds onto the SS position. I'm just saying, outside of Pearson, Crews, Morgan and White, nothing is guaranteed. I think you can bank on those four.

BTW, I think the reason Stevenson's prospects are more highly thought of around here is because of the way his brother improved his hitting over time. I don't think something like that is likely to translate, and the younger brother isn't as good a defensive player, either.

Yeah Pearson looked plain bad this past fall practice/scrimmages, but after hitting .300 as a freshman in the SEC hard to not give him the opportunity first out there to start the season.

Kling is a day 1 starter. He’s a five tool player which don’t make it to college very often who can hit anywhere in the line up. Coming out of high school, he was rated similar to Crews before pulling his name out of the draft.

RETURNERS

1. Josh Pearson LF
2. Dylan Crews CF
3. Tre Morgan 1B
4. Gavin Dugas 2B
5. Brayden Jobert RF
6. Jordan Thompson SS
7. Cade Beloso DH
8. Jack Merrifield 3B
9. Alex Milazzo C

SP1 - Ty Floyd
SP2 - Grant Taylor
SP3 - Blake Money
LHP - Riley Cooper
RP - Bryce Collins

NEWCOMERS

1. Ben Nippolt 2B
2. Paxton Kling RF
3. Tommy White 3B
4. Paul Skenes DH
5. Jared Jones 1B
6. Brady Neal C
7. Gavin Guidry SS
8. Zeb Ruddell LF
9. Mic Paul CF

SP1 - Paul Skenes
SP2 - Thatcher Hurd
SP3 - Chase Shores
LHP - Nate Ackenhousen
RP - Christian Little


That's how good this team is. There's basically 2 teams that could compete for an SEC championship on 1 team.

If you watched any of the games, practices during the fall you wouldnt have Guidry starting at 2B. Hes going to be a stud but there are several guys ahead of him right now in the middle infield.