Notes from today’s baseball scrimmage

[FallAmericanDawg]

-Plumlee and Ginn started and looked really good. Ginn struck out 8 in 4 innings and didn’t allow any hard contact. Plumlee only struck out 2 in 4 innings but again didn’t allow hard contact.

-Freshman Eric Cerantola really sounded like he was throwing hard but was erratic. I think he’s got a ton of potential if he can throw strikes consistently.

-Spencer Price returned to the mound. Hopefully he’ll be able to get back to his 2017 form and be a big part of our bullpen.

-Catching and second base are our weakest spots.

-Looks like Lemonis is implementing more shifts and unique defensive alignments. Going to be interesting to see how those impact our games this season.

 

[Shmuley]

Oh noes!!1!1! We suck at the plate1!!1!!!!1

 

[bruiser.sixpack]

Yep. Looks like we will K a lot this year.***

 

[DAWG61]

-Catching and second base are our weakest spots.

Yea nobody could see that coming**

 

[philduckworth]

Gilbert went 0-3 today, but he was absolutely raking until today.

 

[Todd4State]

To be fair Cerentola only threw one inning. He may have settled down had he gone longer.

 

[msstate7]

Gilbert went 0-3 today, but he was absolutely raking until today.

Catcher still?

 

[RiverCityDawg]

Catcher still?

Looks like he played both third and catcher in Saturday's scrimmage.

 

[o_HuntDawg]

Looked like he played it like a regular weekend this weekend.

Smart on Friday, Ginn on Saturday, James on Sunday.

Order was:
Mangum CF
Jordan LF
Westburg SS
Allen 1b
MacNamee RF
Foscue 3b
2b- were mixed
C- were mixed

Obviously we were playing without a DH since it was split squads. My guess is we'll see a handful of guys in that spot opening weekend, along with at least 2 different catchers, maybe even 3?

As mentioned above, C and 2b aren't good. Lem shifted nearly every left handed hitter. We tried stealing a lot, and were thrown out a lot. Jordan and Westburg swung the bat well in the bit I saw.

Also to note, our best starters faced the reserves and our starters faced the freshman and what I'd call non weekend guys.

 

[philduckworth]

Looked like he played it like a regular weekend this weekend.

Smart on Friday, Ginn on Saturday, James on Sunday.

Order was:
Mangum CF
Jordan LF
Westburg SS
Allen 1b
MacNamee RF
Foscue 3b
2b- were mixed
C- were mixed

Obviously we were playing without a DH since it was split squads. My guess is we'll see a handful of guys in that spot opening weekend, along with at least 2 different catchers, maybe even 3?

As mentioned above, C and 2b aren't good. Lem shifted nearly every left handed hitter. We tried stealing a lot, and were thrown out a lot. Jordan and Westburg swung the bat well in the bit I saw.

Also to note, our best starters faced the reserves and our starters faced the freshman and what I'd call non weekend guys.

I think that first 6 is pretty much set in stone.

Then at 2B you have Halter, Landon Jordan, and maybe Ginn; then I look for one of these 3 to DH
At catcher you have 4 guys: Skelton, Jones, Gilbert and Hancock; surely one guy can emerge or we can platoon r/l

Glad we got thrown out a lot stealing b/c maybe that will encourage Lemonis to not steal b/c stealing is dumb in college baseball and the pros.