Bart Gregory with a nice tweet (baseball)

[57stratdawg]

7 big leaguers on our 2012 team:

Stratton
Graveman
Lindgren
Holder
Frazier
Girodo
Renfroe

 

[engie]

All recruited into a program with zero stability at the time too...

 

[msstate7]

Girodo shouldn't be counted on lists like this except for '13**

I'm kind of serious though... girodo was horrid in '12. He was money in '13 though

 

[messageboardsuperhero]

Brandon Woodruff is well on his way too. There are a couple more who have a good chance also. The SEC record for most MLB players on one roster is eight, and we have a pretty damn good shot at breaking that.

 

[57stratdawg]

Haha We need more than 1 year from guys though. Kind of splitting heirs**

 

[The Peeper]

If I had been a betting man wouldn't have wagered Renfroe would have been the last of this group

 

[MSUDC11]

I thought Graveman was the least likely to get called up out of that group and he ended up being the first.

Good college pitcher, but not great. A solid Saturday guy that we had to use as our Friday night ace because we had no other starting options (albeit the best bullpen in the country). He developed a new pitch in the minors and that really accelerated his career.

Woodruff will get called up in the next year. Still could see Routt or Evan Mitchell in the big leagues at some point. Possibly Pirtle (I know he wasn't on the 2012 team but still).

 

[thekimmer]

How many does UCLA have in MLB from their championship team?

 

[57stratdawg]

I think one of their pitchers got called up last week too

 

[MSUDC11]

Yes, Adam freaking Plutko.

 

[bulldognation]

Doesn't matter... They have a total of 217 national championships across all sports at UCLA.

They stole one of them from us.

 

[MSUDC11]

Doesn't matter... They have a total of 217 national championships across all sports at UCLA.

They stole one of them from us.

This is the thing that's always frustrated me the most. That would've meant EVERYTHING to our fanbase. To UCLA, whose stadium holds 1,800 people, it meant nothing.