2013 MSU Baseball Team

[InTheIttaBenaHotSun]

How many players were drafted from that team and how many of those players have made it to the show?

I know it’s been discussed a few times on here but I can recall the #’s.

Thanks and Hail State!

 

[Willow Grove Dawg]

Renfroe, Frazier, Holder, Graveman, Lindgren, Woodruff, & Girodo have all spent at least some time in the majors. I think Robson play AAA this year and Bracewell & maybe Evan Mitchell are still playing in the minors.

 

[Uncle Ruckus]

I think bracewell and Mitchell are aaa guys. That’s 10 who could legimately play in the mlb. Please find another team that can say that who didn’t win a title.

 

[shotgunDawg]

I'm fairly certain that this team will have the record for most major leaguers on a college team.

However, I think one of Florida or Vanderbilt's recent teams could surpass it in time.

So, the 2013 could set a record that only stands for a few years.

 

[Todd4State]

I think we will look back and see that our 2013 SEC Chapionship team had a lot of MLB players on it too.

 

[bddawg]

I think we will look back and see that our 2013 SEC Chapionship team had a lot of MLB players on it too.

What year? 16?

 

[Willow Grove Dawg]

2016 team - Hudson has been in the majors, Robson on 13 & 16 team is in AAA, Lowe had a great year in AAA, Rooker is in AA & seems destined for the majors, Sexton has been solid thru the minors, I think Houston is still in the minors, Humphreys is still in the low minors, Pilk was a high draft pick this year, Collins is still playing in the minors, and several are still playing college ball - Small should be a drafted in first couple of rounds. Footnote - damned if I would bet against the Mangum kid making the show.

 

[StillTbonewannabe]

2016 team - Hudson has been in the majors, Robson on 13 & 16 team is in AAA, Lowe had a great year in AAA, Rooker is in AA & seems destined for the majors, Sexton has been solid thru the minors, I think Houston is still in the minors, Humphreys is still in the low minors, Pilk was a high draft pick this year, Collins is still playing in the minors, and several are still playing college ball - Small should be a drafted in first couple of rounds. Footnote - damned if I would bet against the Mangum kid making the show.

Lowe was Tampa Bay minor league player of the year.

 

[Hankp22]

Might be my favorite MSU team of all time

The names mentioned all were fun to watch. But going further down the roster, you have guys like Pirtle, Ross Mitchell, Henderson, Detz, Rea, etc.

I've watched a lot if MSU baseball games the last 30 years and I don't know that I've enjoyed watching someone play as much as Pirtle. That team in the "live ball" era would have been something else.

 

[Todd4State]

What year? 16?

Yes. 16. My bad.

 

[Todd4State]

2016 team - Hudson has been in the majors, Robson on 13 & 16 team is in AAA, Lowe had a great year in AAA, Rooker is in AA & seems destined for the majors, Sexton has been solid thru the minors, I think Houston is still in the minors, Humphreys is still in the low minors, Pilk was a high draft pick this year, Collins is still playing in the minors, and several are still playing college ball - Small should be a drafted in first couple of rounds. Footnote - damned if I would bet against the Mangum kid making the show.

I think Houston and Robson will get the call next year. Same with Lowe and Rooker. Humphreys is a couple of years away but is one of the Rockies top 30 prospects. Daniel Brown might make it up as a relief pitcher too.

 

[gymdawg.sixpack]

Dont forget pollo....loved that guys heart

 

[8dog]

The 2012 team would technically have the most since it would have all those guys plus stratton. Even though most of those guys had no role on that team

 

[maroonmania]

Renfroe, Frazier, Holder, Graveman, Lindgren, Woodruff, & Girodo have all spent at least some time in the majors. I think Robson play AAA this year and Bracewell & maybe Evan Mitchell are still playing in the minors.

Interesting thing is that Lindgren and Woodruff didn't even really contribute to that team even though they were on it.

 

[Cubswillwinitonedaydawg]

Lowe was Tampa Bay minor league player of the year.

Don't forget Kruger. He hit right at .300 last year in A and AA. Has a chance to make it also.

Man the 13 and 16 teams were good.

 

[engie]

Don't forget Kruger. He hit right at .300 last year in A and AA. Has a chance to make it also.

Man the 13 and 16 teams were good.

Seems like a great time for this bump I accidentally found while looking for something else awhile back. Seems potentially relevant to the football discussion as well.

https://forums.sixpackspeak.com/showthread.php?141473-Cohen

 

[engie]

And this one too.

https://forums.sixpackspeak.com/showthread.php?141409-But-but-Kyle-Peterson-says-we-re-gonna-be-good-soon

 

[bulldogbaja]

The crazy team is that team was supposed to be a down year. They kind of came out of nowhere.

 

[Willow Grove Dawg]

Cohen has said on a couple of occasions that Woodruff was dealing with injuries for his entire collegiate career. Woodruff should have been the Friday night starter on the 2013 CWS Finals team.

 

[engie]

The crazy team is that team was supposed to be a down year. They kind of came out of nowhere.

The 2013 team? They were expected to be elite and a high water mark by many on here. Now you did have people melting hard about the 3-6 start in SEC play following the series loss to Central Arkansas, but that is a constant for every single baseball season that I remember. There will always be a lull midseason for people to take a football "every game is the end of the world" mindset to and make a bunch of absurd statements that they rarely show back up to own. I think you are probably getting them confused with the 2016 team, which really did "come out of nowhere" for many if not most everyone on here. I was fighting the battle for that being a very good team by myself for quite some time in the preseason and early season that year after seeing the advancement all of our guys had made in the Cape that summer. The final accomplishment of that team was even better than I thought they were, Arizona's rubber arms notwithstanding.

The funny thing is -- since the 2013 team -- 2019 is the first team I've expected to be truly elite in the preseason. 2014 was a mild underachievement from preseason expectations based on our Omaha run. 2015 was a shitshow. I thought 2016 would be a host bubble team and they overachieved by a lot. 2017 and 2018 were rebuilds for different reasons that I just wanted to make the field and that overachieved in the postseason.

 

[StillTbonewannabe]

The 2013 team? They were expected to be elite and a high water mark by many on here. Now you did have people melting hard about the 3-6 start in SEC play following the series loss to Central Arkansas, but that is a constant for every single baseball season that I remember. There will always be a lull midseason for people to take a football "every game is the end of the world" mindset to and make a bunch of absurd statements that they rarely show back up to own. I think you are probably getting them confused with the 2016 team, which really did "come out of nowhere" for many if not most everyone on here. I was fighting the battle for that being a very good team by myself for quite some time in the preseason and early season that year after seeing the advancement all of our guys had made in the Cape that summer. The final accomplishment of that team was even better than I thought they were, Arizona's rubber arms notwithstanding.

The funny thing is -- since the 2013 team -- 2019 is the first team I've expected to be truly elite in the preseason. 2014 was a mild underachievement from preseason expectations based on our Omaha run. 2015 was a shitshow. I thought 2016 would be a host bubble team and they overachieved by a lot. 2017 and 2018 were rebuilds for different reasons that I just wanted to make the field and that overachieved in the postseason.

2015 was screwed the minute they changed the baseball. They could have said our entire team had to pitch left handed and it wouldn't have made that much more of a negative impact. We also were built for hitting the dead ball so it took a year to course correct. I like to compare that year with Georgia Tech if the NCAA outlawed the option in July. Cohen tried to use the dead ball advantage as much as possible, 2 games away from a National Title, however it screwed us hard when the NCAA changed it.

 

[engie]

2015 was screwed the minute they changed the baseball. They could have said our entire team had to pitch left handed and it wouldn't have made that much more of a negative impact. We also were built for hitting the dead ball so it took a year to course correct. I like to compare that year with Georgia Tech if the NCAA outlawed the option in July. Cohen tried to use the dead ball advantage as much as possible, 2 games away from a National Title, however it screwed us hard when the NCAA changed it.

This is correct. Obviously correct in hindsight. But probably 50% of this website or more would have argued against that point until the cows came home at the time.

 

[maroonmania]

Yes, and Lindgren should have been a shut down relief guy for that team but if I'm remembering right he couldn't seemingly throw a strike that year and we just quit pitching him.

 

[bulldogbaja]

Very possible i'm confused. It happens a lot.

 

[Willow Grove Dawg]

Cohen also thought that the 2015 team essentially quit on him & as a result for all practical purposes he said "to hell with this season" about the middle of the SEC season and starting preparing for a roster purge that would put a totally different team on the field in 2016.