re: This baseball team is stacked

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I worry about the lack of returning offensive production. Jones and Milam should be strong. But we will need some of the new guys and transfers (Hernandez, Dickinson, Curriel, Priester, etc) to adjust quickly to the SEC level of pitching

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I worry that we will have a lineup full of "good" players, but not enough great ones.

We won the last title because we had several dominant players coupled with a group of really good role players. We need 2-3 guys from the group of Milam, Dickinson, Shores, Eyanson, Anderson, Brown, Jones, Guidry, etc, to step up and play like All-Americans. We need 1-2 dominant pitchers who can be counted on for a W when they take the hill. We need someone to protect Bear in the lineup so they can't pitch around him. We also need power from someone other than the big guy.

What we have is a whole bunch of guys with the potential and physical tools to step up. Will they? Some of that will fall on CJJ.

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I just don't want to see our baseball team go 3 and 12 in the first five SEC series like last year.

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Schedule is pretty difficult again this year (not quite the last years start) but this team is built to win a lot of games, going to be tough to take 2/3 or sweep us in any series this year with our pitching alone.

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Is this team going to have power bats or is this going to be a small-ball offensive approach?

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Both, balanced

1. Dickinson
2. Milam
3. Jones
4. Brown
5. Hernandez
6. Larson
7. Braswell
8. Pearson
9. Stanfield

I think Pearson gets the opening day start but Curiel plays the bulk of the innings.Arrambide will catch a game on opening weekend. Priester will DH a game on opening weekend. Reaves, Frey, and Beck will make an appearance.

Is Noot fully recovered?

He's healthy but was still developing in the fall. Started the fall a little slow but got better each week.

Good, we're going to need them all!

Remember when you tried to call me out for saying Milam would start at SS?

The pitching ceiling is really high. The offensive floor is really high but the ceiling isn't as high as it was in 2023 I don't think. This is a CWS team but it'll take a lot of time to figure out your best 8. Lots of guys will see lots of ABs

There's a lot of swing and miss with Priester but he had a high batting average in the fall. There's too much power there to leave on the bench. His usage is going to be real tricky for Jay. It's going to be interesting to see how Jay manages that.