From Baseball Collegiate Newspaper: The Vanderbilt coach:
“It is the first time in years we were able to keep our entire draft class intact,” said Vanderbilt Associate Head Coach/Pitching Coach Scott Brown.
“You never believe that you will land every single player you went after, but this is what happened with this class,” said Brown.
“We have a collection of big bodied pitchers with live arms.”
Every single pitcher throws in the low 90s to 98 mph with their fastballs and are huge physical specimens."
Why do pitchers not want to come here. Could it be all the arm problems we have, or the fact that our pitchers never improve at throwing strikes?
2017 is low for the number of pitchers we got. So it probably isn't right to say they don't want to come. Of course I agree 100% that they don't perform as ranked due to ........ well we've had long discussions about that. In any event, the 2108 class has 12 total and 6 are pitchers. 5 of 13 in the 2016 class were pitchers. 9 of 17 in the 2015 class were pitchers. So Hall is recruiting plenty of pitchers. It's just they mostly don't work out. And they don't all start off as the low 90s to 98 mph fastballs like Vandy. We wouldn't stand much of a chance against Vandy in a 5 game series.
But trying to be positive, the three 2017 pitchers we have and their rankings by Perfect Game:
Brant Hurter LHP, 23 LHP in nation and 2nd in Ga
Hugh Chapman RHP, 156 RHP in nation and 4 in Ga
Jake Brace RHP, 314 RHP in nation and 17 in Ga.
Seems we should be doing better in Ga. Sorry but I've developed an allergy to the Kool-Aid.
