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14 minutes ago, 5 championships said:

Hopefully we can find some pitching out the portal for next year 

Unfortunately the best two they had this past year got hurt, plus best true FR.. Benes who was starting midweeks. Annoying 

Risedorph, Kraft, Whiteaker-- couple of others had really poor seasons. 

Smh. Risedorph has been awful all year 

Tennessee should have Burns too 🤣🤣

Hope thats not the last time we see Foley in an IU uniform 

Foley is at 52p and isn't out of the 2nd inning. 

Goodness. This is the worst he's looked. Unfortunate 

The two walks make them 2run HRs. Sigh 

Tennessee is good 

Drew Beams stuff looked great B1

Cubs running on Elly 🙈

On 5/30/2024 at 4:08 PM, IU Scott said:

Last years Reds team did it a lot 

19 all of last year.. Friedl had 8 of them 

We were great today.  2 more just like it

Not boring 

Tennessee has 3 of the country's Top 20-30 hitters in their lineup. 

Christian Moore, Billy Amick will both go first rd..

Blake Burke will probably go in the 2nd rd. 

I watch 90% of their games. They are incredibly good and VERY good at home.  

22 minutes ago, Indykev said:

Ind. St got screwed. the NCAA must not like that school. RPI #10 not hosting and get sent to the RPI #2 UK. UK can't be happy with that either.

I thought both were fair. 

Their KPI was #28, they had zero good series wins, and didn't win their conference tourney. 

They were sent to UK because that was the only option geographically speaking. 

I think with Foley being able to throw on 8 days rest, Bothwell throwing multiple times last week.. 

Foley starts Friday.. and you go from there. 

Foley could throw 110p+.. 

Bothwell the same on Saturday... 

Both of Southern Miss starters are RHP-- 5 of the 7 out of the pen are as well. 

I know nothing about their lineup.  

We're in!!! Headed to Knoxville to take on So Miss

Sucks about Acuna. Absolute star of stars. 

Oh boy--- still not sure what to think-- there are multiple publications that have us in the tourney as of now... 

Some think the committee obvious use of "KPI" instead of RPI in the hosting decisions (IN ST was not a host with an RPI of 10), their KPI was 28. 

We are stronger in the KPI than we are RPI. 

23 hours ago, Fkfootball said:

One bad pitch. If that 3 HR was a fly ball instead, we'd be moving on.

Yep. Dang it. 

Just now, 5 championships said:

Love Mercer and the fact that he’s 38! He should  keep us in regional mix and top BIG every year. Hard to beat that for Midwest program. 

For sure. 

I doubt there is anyone more disappointed with how this year turned out than him. 

He's created serious depth in our lineup-- Andrew Wiggins wasn't in our Top 10/11 to begin the year, as proof of that... 

We have to continue to develop and scout well on the mound. 

We'll undoubtedly hit the portal for some arms too. 

Grable, Bohnert would both get Medical RSs if they want them. 

1 hour ago, eddy4iu said:

You follow IU baseball a lot closer than I do and I appreciate this summery post. Who do you think we lose to the draft and who will we keep. My understanding is that DT has to stay due to being a sophomore - is that correct?

Yep. He's back.. 

Who we lose?-- Foley, Cerny are both draft eligible SOs and some have Foley listed in the first 5 rds.. I spoke with some people down in TX when IU played in Frisco--- at that time it was floated that Foleys parents wanted to see him back at IU after this season..  big difference in money if Foley comes back and works himself into a 1st/2nd rd draft pick, which he absolutely could... compared to going 5th/6th rd this year... 

I don't think Cerny would get drafted this year anyways, personally. I would even go as far to say-- him going pro, at this juncture, would be a bad choice for him. Foley I'm 50/50 on.... 

Now for the JRs--- Sinnard-- for sure could get drafted, it'd probably be later in the draft with way less guaranteed money-- but he could also come back and go T3 rds with a good year... 

Tibbitts-- gone. Total stud. We missed him so much when he was out. Elite defensive 1B, can also catch. 

Mathison-- gone. Showed he can CF this year too. Struggled average wise at the plate, but I'd be shocked if he's back. 

Mitchell- I assume he's gone.  He improved a lot in the field, buuut I don't think I'd be shocked if he were back. 

Pyne-- I do think he's back. He's just not "plus" anywhere.  I hope I'm wrong and Josh is drafted this year. 

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Jake Hanley is a 6'6 225lbs Top 100 recruit that plays 1B. 

Brayton Thomas--- LHP-- Top 75 recruit (pray he gets to campus)

Hogan Denny-- Top 150 catcher 

Griffin Tobias-- Top 200 RHP 

Grant Hollister- Top 200 3B 

And a couple others that a highly thought of. 

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Taylor, Wiggins, Cerny, Oliver, Sheppard, Brenczewski, Hanley (and possibly Pyne), Stadler.. is a helluva way to start a position group... 

One hole I see if CF-- Braydon Bakes (highly rated recruit was a RS this past year), Evan Macintyre highly rated recruit from North Carolina... can one of those guys win the job? 

I think we'd probably go portaling for a CF. 

51 minutes ago, 5 championships said:

Disappointing year. Thought if things broke right we might have chance to host. Pitching was way too bad for that. Then against Nebraka just couldn’t get the timely hits in game 1 and wasted a great pitching game. Wonder who we lose? Who we bring in? Sinnard and foley next year? That be filthy. 

Sinnard, Foley, Grable, Bothwell, ADP, Buhr, Risedorph was going to be a helluva top 7..  

Bohnert, Tonghini mixed in. 

3 of those 9 go down. Tibbitts is injured for a month, Mitchell misses two weekends to start the year, Sheppard plays 2 games, and Wiggins gets hurt just as he's winning the DH job... 

Then-- Cerny had issues at SS for two games that killed our pitching.. 

--- Kraft, Whiteaker give us 0 on the mound

Mercer is a 38 year old HC... he just needs to be reflective and continue to grow. 

The FR class we have coming in is loaded-- Brayton Thomas, Hogan Denny, Jake Hanley, Grant Hollister, Evan Macintyre, Griffin Tobias--- all Top 250/300 kids. 

One other point-- I think after this season, college baseball is going to get a lot younger... meaning the "covid years" will drastically lessen-- we will not be seeing nearly as many 24 year olds in college baseball. Baseball is a year ahead of football and basketball in that regard. Think like Galloway, Leal types but in baseball--- getting to hit off 18 yr olds... 

For a program that has the best recruiting in the conference--- that should bode well moving forward. 

Nebrakas "Pitcher of the Year"--- Brett Sears is 24 years old-- 2 year JUCO, 2 years at Western ILL, 2 years at NE-- that stuff isn't going to happen anymore. 

Mercer has been good in the portal-- Glasser, Sinnard, Buhr, and Mitchell... to fill gaps. 

Weather the storm, eat some humble pie, get back in the cages, be reflective and improve.