We moved James to 3rd and put freshman Forsythe at SS. He’s been a stud in the field since he’s been in. Feels great to have SS locked down for a few years with him. His defense has been solid and hoping the bat improves as the season moves on.
Parker Messick hit that bomb against VT and they've all been just ripping every pair of tits they see Please last forever
some mention of Ethan Small in the FanGraphs Sunday Notes feature: Spoiler Ethan Small’s success comes largely from his heater. Which isn’t to suggest he throws smoke. As Eric Longenhagen wrote when profiling the 23-year-old southpaw for our 2020 Brewers Top Prospects list, Small is “blowing fastballs with mediocre velocity past opposing hitters because he hides the ball well and creates pure backspin.” Velocity-wise, the former Mississippi State Bulldog typically sits in the low 90s. Professional hitters haven’t seen much of him due to the pandemic — Small’s curriculum vitae comprises 21 A-ball innings — but Southeastern Conference opponents are another story. They had plenty of opportunity to be impressed with the 28th-overall pick in the 2019 draft, particularly in his junior year when he went 10-2 with a 1.93 ERA, and 176 strikeouts in 107 innings. A pair of fellow 2019 first-rounders sang Small’s praises when I asked which SEC pitchers they’d faced stood out the most. Braden Shewmake, whom the Atlanta Braves drafted 21st overall out of Texas A&M, began by citing Casey Mize. The second pitcher he mentioned was Small. “Mississippi State always had some guys,” said Shewmake. “Ethan Small is a good arm. He was not fun to hit off of, especially being left-handed. For us, he was one of the first guys that started with all that spin rate stuff. He’d be throwing up in the zone, and a lot of guys didn’t know how to adjust that. He wasn’t super-overpowering, but he did have a good curveball, which made his fastball look a lot harder. And that ball just rode. He was sneaky quick, and he’s long too, so the ball got on you a little bit quicker.” JJ Bleday — fourth-overall by the Miami Marlins — shared similar thoughts when addressing the 6-foot-4 lefty (he also name-checked Garrett Crochet, Kumar Rocker, and a few others.) “He had a very high spin rate in the zone,” Bleday said of Small. “He’d only be throwing 89- 92, maybe touching 93, but he had a great fastball. He was one of those guys where you’d be hunting that heater, and you’d still be swinging-and-missing because of the spin rate and because of where he was playing it in the zone.” Justin Foscue saw much of the same, albeit from a different vantage point. The Texas Rangers 2020 first-rounder was a Bulldog himself. “He just ran out there and threw fastballs,” said Small’s former teammate. “I don’t know how people didn’t hit him. Like, guys would just swing right through it every single time. He was sneaky fast that way. He could tell them, ‘Hey, here comes a fastball,’ and they’d still swing through it. So he was pretty fun to play behind him. I didn’t have many ground balls hit to me. I think he just struck out like 70 percent of the people he faced.” A lot of those strikeouts came with fastballs, although not exactly for the reasons suggested above. Perception doesn’t always match reality, and according to Small, what drives his effectiveness is more than meets the eye. “A lot of people think it’s a really high spin-rate fastball, and I would say that’s not exactly the case,” said Small. “I think a lot of it has to do with my extension — whatever that distance is from home to wherever I’m releasing the ball — and also spin efficiency; I’m probably flirting with 98-to-100%. That and the big extension number is what gets that rise on the fastball late in the zone. My [spin rate] is by no means above average.” Small was No. 4 in our Brewers Top Prospect rankings a year ago. Our 2021 list is forthcoming.
San Francisco snapped their 9-game skid with a 7-6 W over Pepperdine yesterday afternoon. St Mary's evened the series with San Diego so they have a rubber match today some other big rubber matches today between: TCU/Louisiana Lafayette Zona/UCLA ASU/Oregon Oregon St/Wash St IU/Purdue OK St/TTU CCU/WVU BC/UNC Clemson/VT GT/Wake Arkansas/Bama Tenn/UGA gonna be a good day to smoke a lot of weed
welcome back to the lineup Dom Keegan!! He is back at 1B and oh baby, Enrique Bradfield Jr moved atop the lineup!!!!! Let's fucking go. Cooper Davis has a solid plate approach but he does not hit for any power and has been in a funk. Bradfield has shown a wonderful approach and can spray the ball all over with arguably the best speed in college baseball. Been waiting for this
I think there is a certain few white barrell bats that are banned bc pitchers couldn't see ball on line drives
Outscored 32-2 so far this weekend....has a team ever gone from #6 to unranked before? Even coming off the top recruiting class in the country...I’m ready to fire the entire staff
It’s silly. We haven’t put on a four game run of playing this well against ranked teams since the 2019 Omaha run in the regional and super regional.
CJ Rodriguez with a 2-run HR onto Memorial Gym to make it 3-0 to T2. Bradfield drew a walk and ended up scoring without a hit to make it 1-0. Two stolen bases
South Carolina hasn't gotten a hit since the 6th inning on Friday night. 3-0 VU to B3. Cracks me up they've got Florida next. If I'm riding the bench on that team, I am hitting up the transfer portal and doing the rest of the semester online at home and utilizing the expanded transfer rule that will pass next month and just start over somewhere else this fall
almost time for a fresh wave of sweet games to start. I really need to get a tablet or something simply for streaming baseball games because two screens isn't cutting it Brady Allen leads off T4 with a solo HR to end the Cocks hitless streak, 4-1 in T4. Braylen Wimmer makes it 4-2 and back-to-back HRs
IU leading Purdue 5-4 in B6 UNC and BC tied 4-4 in B7 Tenn leading UGA 3-1 in B6 Clemson and VT tied 1-1 in B7 Arkansas and Bama fixing to be on SEC Network once this Mizzou/UK game ends
Schultz pulled after 61 pitches as SC gets a leadoff single in T5. VU leading 5-2. Schultz went 4 IP, 4 H, 3 ER, 4 SO/0 BB. He has good command/control. But just not elite stuff, seems the fastball is pretty straight Ethan Smith on in relief for the Dores. Walks his first hitter faced so 1st/2nd with no outs for SC in T5 wish Missouri would hurry up and finish off UK so Bama/Arkansas can get on my TV without relying on the PS4 UT leading UGA 3-1 T8 VT leading Clemson 2-1 B8 IU leading Purdue 6-4 B7
Biggest loss margin of a series in our program history, dating back to 1940 First time swept at home since 2003
IU leading Purdue 9-4 to the 9th Clemson wins 4-2 and takes the series from VT Lael Lockhart with 7 Ks in 4 IP for Arkansas so far, 0-0 to B4 in Fayetteville Tenn tacks on a run in T9, they're leading UGA 4-1 and looking likely to take the series now
Gamecocks reliever Brett Kerry is really good. Has silenced the VU bats. He has gotten 11 straight outs. VU leading SC 5-4 to T8 TTU leading OK St 3-0 in T4 Cullen Smith with a 2-out solo shot for Arkansas in B4 to go up 1-0 UNC got a triple that scored a run in T9 and they beat BC 5-4 to take the series
Cocks load the bases with no outs in T8 down 5-4. Yikes sac fly ties it 5-5 and another bases-loaded sac fly gives SC the lead, 6-5 to B8 Dores will have to fight back edit, Cocks take game three to avoid the sweep. Kerry was lights out in relief
dumb question BC had a guy on 3rd with 2 outs bottom 9. grounder to third and a terrible throw pulls our first baseman off but he gets the tag to end the game. the runner crossed home before the tag i guess that is technically a force even tho it’s a tag so the rules don’t apply? was worried for a second the run would count but no one on either team or the broadcasters acknowledged it so i assumed i was wrong on the rule
Hogs beat Bama 3-1 to take the series. Arkansas pitching with 15 K’s today. Wiggins finally gave up a run in the 9th but responded with two K’s to close the door. Not sure if Vandy jumps us for that top spot or not but probably so. We gotta clean some shit up, especially on Friday nights.
Rebs complete the sweep of Auburn in a nearly 4 hour game. Led 14-0 at one point, Auburn reeled off nine runs in the eighth to make it interesting but Ole Miss added five of their own in the bottom of the eight. Final 19-11.