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[BrassBulls12]

 

Best performance by a starter we had last season, in the conference tourney when we had to have it no less. We are going to need him to take that next step forward this season. 

[bullsmeanbusiness]

Hadn't seen this posted yet, so here is another preseason prediction. 

https://www.perfectgame.org/Articles/View.aspx?article=16026

 

Predicted Order of Finish

Overall/conference win-loss records from 2018 indicated | * Denotes projected conference automatic bid
 

No.	Team	W	L	W	L
1	East Carolina*	44	18	14	10
2	UConn	37	22	14	10
3	Houston	38	25	16	8
4	UCF	35	21	13	10
5	South Florida	36	22	14	9
6	Wichita State	35	21	9	14
7	Tulane	25	33	9	14
8	Cincinnati	28	28	12	12
9	Memphis	20	36	5	19

Preseason All-Conference Team

Pos.	Name	Class	School	Stats/Notes
C	Jacob Washer	R-Jr.	East Carolina	.287-6-40; cleanup hitter, juice to all fields
1B	Joe Genord	Sr.	South Florida	.306-16-53; big-time juice, middle-of-order bat
2B	Luke Ritter	Sr.	Wichita State	.341-6-31; contact-oriented app. w/ some pop
3B	Jared Triolo	Jr.	Houston	.344-5-28; 3-hole hitter, raw hitter, juice to all fields
SS	Anthony Prato	Jr.	UConn	.324-2-23; repeat preseason All-AAC SS, pure hitter
OF	Bryant Packard	Jr.	East Carolina	.406-14-50; Preseason All-American, 5-tool player
OF	Kyle Phillips	Sr.	South Florida	.333-5-22; leadoff bat, pure hitter w/ all-fields app.
OF	Tyler Osik	R-Sr.	UCF	.310-9-56; cleanup hitter, advanced hit tool
DH	Joe Davis	Sr.	Houston	.318-13-62; Houston's all-time HR & RBI leader
UT	Alec Burleson	So.	East Carolina	.252-0-18, 3.33, 54, 14:16; legitimate 2-way talent
SP	Mason Feole	Jr.	UConn	2.50, 100.2, 120:49; AAC PiOY, low-90s FB, + CB
SP	Chris Williams	R-Sr.	UCF	2.81, 93, 79:17; outstanding command, senior leader
SP	Tyler Smith	Jr.	East Carolina	1.78, 60.2, 34:12; 2018 AAC ERA leader, misses bats
SP	Keagan Gillies	Jr.	Tulane	3.36, 80.1, 57:31; adv. feel for strike zone
RP	Ricky (Trey) Benton	Jr.	East Carolina	3.13, 69, 68:31; lively FB, feel for CB w/ late bite

 

Player of the Year: Bryant Packard, of, East Carolina
Pitcher of the Year: Mason Feole, lhp, UConn
Freshman of the Year: Brandon Schrepf, of, South Florida 

[BrassBulls12]

My only issue with Schrepf as FOY is that he might not play enough. We have a good amount of veteran depth in the outfield. 

[JoeB]

Mikey Montes is Coco's cousin I'm told.  That picture of him holding the bat looks exactly like Coco's stance...I thought it could be his brother.

As for the schedule start, I'm hoping we win 2 of 3 from Sanford (no easy task), and then hoping we go 2-3 with the meat of the schedule.  Its really hard to say though with the lack of starting pitching and missing Montes and Villar.  I think Chatfield will be the one guy that gets snubbed in this lineup unless he has finally learned how to make contact more.  His strikeout ratio has been way too high in his 3 seasons so far.  I definitely see more options for platooning with the OF depth.  As for Rags, he needs to concentrate on his pitching when he's healthy.  His approach at the plate left a lot to be desired in his first 2 seasons.  

[CousinRicky]

9 hours ago, JoeB said:

Mikey Montes is Coco's cousin I'm told.  That picture of him holding the bat looks exactly like Coco's stance...I thought it could be his brother.

As for the schedule start, I'm hoping we win 2 of 3 from Sanford (no easy task), and then hoping we go 2-3 with the meat of the schedule.  Its really hard to say though with the lack of starting pitching and missing Montes and Villar.  I think Chatfield will be the one guy that gets snubbed in this lineup unless he has finally learned how to make contact more.  His strikeout ratio has been way too high in his 3 seasons so far.  I definitely see more options for platooning with the OF depth.  As for Rags, he needs to concentrate on his pitching when he's healthy.  His approach at the plate left a lot to be desired in his first 2 seasons.  

Chat really seemed to have trouble with breaking pitches.  Haven't seen a lot of improvement over the years.

[bullsmeanbusiness]

https://d1baseball.com/analysis/2019-preseason-staff-bold-predictions/

	Kendall Rogers	Aaron Fitt	Mark Etheridge	David Seifert
National Champion	Vanderbilt	Vanderbilt	Arkansas	LSU
Player of the Year	Adley Rutschman, Oregon State	Adley Rutschman, Oregon State	Andrew Vaughn, Cal	JJ Bleday, Vanderbilt
Pitcher of the Year	Graeme Stinson, Duke	Graeme Stinson, Duke	Drew Parrish, Florida State	Noah Song, Navy
Freshman of the Year	Landon Marceaux, LSU	Matt McClain, UCLA	Landon Marceaux, LSU	Landon Marceaux, LSU
Non-Top 25 Sleeper	Southern Miss	Georgia Tech	Southern Miss	Sam Houston State
Non-Field of 64 Sleeper	Louisiana Tech	South Florida	Louisiana	Illinois
Breakout Star	Josh Smith, LSU	Noah Campbell, South Carolina	Elijah MacNamee, Miss. State	Daniel Cabrera, LSU
--	--	--	--	--
	Eric Sorenson	Shotgun Spratling	Nick Faleris	Burke Granger
National Champion	Vanderbilt	UCLA	Vanderbilt	LSU
Player of the Year	Adley Rutschman, Oregon State	Andrew Vaughn, Cal	Adley Rutschman, Oregon State	Andrew Vaughn, Cal
Pitcher of the Year	Nick Lodolo, TCU	Andrew Pallante, UC Irvine	Graeme Stinson, Duke	Tyler Dyson, Florida
Freshman of the Year	Matt McClain, UCLA	Matt McClain, UCLA	Nander De Sedas, Florida State	Landon Marceaux, LSU
Non-Top 25 Sleeper	Connecticut	South Carolina	Minnesota	Minnesota
Non-Field of 64 Sleeper	Illinois	Oregon	Oregon	Kentucky
Breakout Star	Herbert Iser, Dallas Baptist	Riley Ornido, San Francisco	JT Ginn, Miss. State	Tyler Fitzgerald, Louisville