Lots of folks on this forum will give a crap about this but this is just 25 guys from NCAA DI baseball. That's a lot of players to choose from and that, to me, is pretty damn good.
No UT guy
No PAC10 player
No C-USA player
No CAA or SoCon or SBC
Olerud Award Watch List
Danny Hultzen Virginia ACC
Mike McGee Florida State ACC
Will Lamb Clemson ACC
Marcus Stroman Duke ACC
Travis Parker St. Louis Univ. Atlantic 10
Bo Reeder East Tenn. State Atlantic Sun
DJ Johnson Mercer Atlantic Sun
Paul Snieder Northwestern Big 10
Josh Dezse Ohio State Big 10
Brooks Pinckard Baylor Big XII
David Paiz Texas Tech Big XII
Mike Genovese Seton Hall Big East
Sam Roberts VMI Big South
Nick Ramirez Cal State Fullerton Big West
Brian Hernandez UC Irvine Big West
Jason Ganek UIC Horizon
Martin Medina Cal State Bakersfield Independent
Chris Briere Longwood Independent
Cody Fick Evansville MVC
Ben Koenigsfeld Army Patriot
Brian Johnson Florida SEC
Austin Maddox Florida SEC
Jeff McVaney Texas State Southland
Casey Selsor UTSA Southland
Zack Jones San Jose State WAC
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Even if one dumps the bogus DH part (yes, I'm old school), this is still WAY impressive. The flexibility this allows coaches, especially in terms of swapping players back and forth for specialized pitching matchups without depleting the bench is immeasurable. Too bad coaches don't think of this more when recruiting.
Thanks for letting us know, CatMom!
SuperHornet's Athletics Hall of Fame includes Jacksonville State kicker Ashley Martin, the first girl to score in a Division I football game. She kicked 3 PATs in a 2001 game for J-State.
McVaney was almost exclusively the DH last year and pitched. He rarely saw field time. He didn't see very much, at all, as a freshman (2009) and Ty stuck him in as DH about 14 games in, last year (2010), out of desperation, I think.
He played in the Cali Summer League and they stuck him in the outfield, so Ty went with it too. While I'm with you on the DH, Jeff does DH when they plan to use him more than 1 inning and we don't lose his bat. He has not not started only about 3 games in LF. And they have brought him in from LF, several times, to pitch 2-3 innings.
Our worst problem this year, then, has been a consistent DH.
