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Post by chad on Mar 19, 2011 19:44:11 GMT -5
Figured we start the new thread.
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Post by chad on Mar 19, 2011 19:45:19 GMT -5
Congrats to B-W's Josh Scott for tossing a no hitter today! The Jackets (5-4) beat Ohio Christian (?) 12-0.
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Post by chad on Mar 19, 2011 19:51:05 GMT -5
Mount (4-8) surprisingly notched a road sweep at Witt (7-6) today 9-2 and 7-1. Strong starts from both Beau Smith and Matt Lambert for MUC. Hoping gspring was in attendance and can add his firsthand thoughts.
The day's biggest news was #1 Berg falling at Adrian 2-1 in 10 innings. Not that it's a bad loss, Adrian is always very good, more that any time Berg loses at all it's news. Ethan Holt pitched a great game, but Ryan Domschott matched him.
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Post by chad on Mar 19, 2011 19:55:49 GMT -5
Woo swept Kenyon (7-9) yesterday to go to 5-3, but I don't see a result from today as yet? Looking at the stats the most surprising thing to me? Only 1 long ball for the Scots so far.
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Post by chad on Mar 19, 2011 20:04:20 GMT -5
OWU (5-8) and Case (11-6) split today. Case got a 2 hitter from Jamie Hora in the 2nd game.
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Post by gramps on Mar 19, 2011 23:04:24 GMT -5
Mount (4-8) surprisingly notched a road sweep at Witt (7-6) today 9-2 and 7-1. Strong starts from both Beau Smith and Matt Lambert for MUC. Hoping gspring was in attendance and can add his firsthand thoughts. The day's biggest news was #1 Berg falling at Adrian 2-1 in 10 innings. Not that it's a bad loss, Adrian is always very good, more that any time Berg loses at all it's news. Ethan Holt pitched a great game, but Ryan Domschott matched him. Talked to Ryan Domschott's father at today's game. He was scratching his head, for as good as Ryan has been pitching over the years, he has not been approached by any scouts. Any thoughts out there as to why? What are the scouts looking for in a pitcher? Is it just that he is a D3 player that he gets no respect?
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Post by pitchersmom on Mar 20, 2011 6:50:33 GMT -5
I read on another site a post by a former ml scout that said scouts consider D3 baseball "a step above women's softball". While we may know the quality of ball that is played by the top D3 programs, it is tough to break that stereotype.
What I saw yesterday was a pitcher who struggled early, but battled to stay in the game. How often do scouts stay for a whole game? How many scouts have even seen him play? The sad fact is that every year, a dozen or so high school seniors are drafted who's fastball is in the 90's. It seems that teams would rather draft young guys who can bring it, and train them to be what they want, than take a shot on someone with more experience (read that as 4 less years in the mlb team's program, and a lot of built-in habits).
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Post by ettanut4life on Mar 20, 2011 9:43:54 GMT -5
In regards to your comments on why he isn't being scouted very heavily, It is more than likely a velocity thing. I have seen him pitch against Marietta a few times and he seemed to be sitting in the 84-85 range. That's not too bad for a lefty but those numbers don't really jump off the page to a scout
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Post by chad on Mar 20, 2011 10:53:50 GMT -5
The thing we always have to keep in mind is that scouts are looking for projectable skills, not college results. They don't care if Domschot is a great DIII pitcher. They just see a guy that throws in the mid 80's, of which there are tons throughout the country in HS and college. If he's sitting at 84-85 as ettanut said then he better have big time secondary pitches to even get a look. It's just the numbers game for scouts. There are far too many kids to look at so you have to start weeding kids out somehow. They want things you can't teach such as size and velocity. They can teach you a change up. They can't teach you to be 4 inches taller.
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Post by chad on Mar 20, 2011 11:00:36 GMT -5
p.s. If you're in DIII and you have MLB tools, they will find you. Zimmerman is in the Nats' rotation. Sanchez (ODU was NAIA, but same difference for our discussion) is in the Giants rotation. And locally Etta has had numerous pitchers drafted.
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Post by chad on Mar 20, 2011 13:32:58 GMT -5
Denison dropped a 12-1 decision in their last game on the left coast.
Otterbein is off to an 0-4 start. Good starting pitching, no hitting (.171 team BA) thus far.
Adrian is leading the Berg 1-0 in the 6th today.
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Post by gspring on Mar 20, 2011 15:29:47 GMT -5
Chad, surprisingly, I do agree, but Mount played pretty well yesterday, they got some key hits in the first game when they needed too. Witt coming off a lost to Dayton, and played well in that game, showed no life yesterday in either game. Witt managed 5 hits and 6 LOB, despite 4 errors by Mount Union. 2nd game more of the same, Witt only 5 hits and 8 LOB for the Tigers. Mount with 2 errors and Witt had 3 in the 2nd game. Witt is at Trine today, but my wife and I could not make the trip, but listening on-line while typing this. Trine won game game 1, 3-2 and as of right now Witt leads game 2, 4-0 bottom 6 with rain causing some issues. Will update when game ends, which if the rain doesn't stop, may be soon.
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Post by gspring on Mar 20, 2011 16:07:06 GMT -5
Bottom of 7th now in a rain delay, 4-0 Witt, Trine with a runner on 1st. Also, to add to my comments on the Mount Union game both starters for Mount did a great job keeping Witt guessing at the plate, so they deserve a ton of credit. Despite having Coach Hesse getting run in the bottom half of the 2nd inning in game 1. Arrgueing a call, or I should say a big collision between Mounts 1st baseman Zach Carlino and Witts Matt Hampp who was running out a ground ball, both hit hard at the bag. Carlino dropped the ball, Hampp called safe. After about a 15 min delay, both players being tended to by trainers we got back to playing, and Hesse THEN went off on the base umpire, and then shown the gate. Didn"t understand his beef, but it was kind of entertaining!
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Post by chad on Mar 20, 2011 16:17:12 GMT -5
Etta beats Thiel 2-0 behind Blaski. FYI, the Pios team ERA is now a ludicrous 1.32! They don't have a single pitcher on their team with an ERA over 3. Gross.
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Post by chad on Mar 20, 2011 16:22:01 GMT -5
Bottom of 7th now in a rain delay, 4-0 Witt, Trine with a runner on 1st. Also, to add to my comments on the Mount Union game both starters for Mount did a great job keeping Witt guessing at the plate, so they deserve a ton of credit. Despite having Coach Hesse getting run in the bottom half of the 2nd inning in game 1. Arrgueing a call, or I should say a big collision between Mounts 1st baseman Zach Carlino and Witts Matt Hampp who was running out a ground ball, both hit hard at the bag. Carlino dropped the ball, Hampp called safe. After about a 15 min delay, both players being tended to by trainers we got back to playing, and Hesse THEN went off on the base umpire, and then shown the gate. Didn"t understand his beef, but it was kind of entertaining! Beau Smith is a solid pitcher for Mount. He has good command, changes speeds well. Lambert I'm not as familiar with. I think it's clear Craig Knott is paying dividends for them in the middle of the order. I basically said in my preview that they needed him to hit well or they were in trouble and he has done it. And if Britt Williams hits their order is much better. Hesse likes to do that from time to time to try to fire up the team. As a spectator it can be comical because it seems very staged like in this instance. If he was that fired up he would have been tossed right when it happened, not 15 minutes later!
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