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The fact that Craig is a scheduled pitcher in the weekend rotation and no other pitcher brought in looks like a sure starter, I'd say the off season was a fail.

We started strong last year (8-6 ACC) only to go on to win only 4 more while losing 12! Pitching was a major problem and O became a problem as the season progressed.

With the rest of the division progressing, don't see us fairing much better.....but we play the games to see. We might end at .500 in ACC (vs .400 last year....seems like we were one win away from making the ACC, or maybe that was the year before....can't remember), which might get us to the tourney, but I think we will exit early....

Terrible take on Craig and the pitchers.

Having played college ball, there's nothing wrong with your best hitter also being a top pitcher. It can be done in college ball and it shouldn't take anything away from the full time pitchers. There's atleast two guys I played with that were all-sec as two way players. Some guys are just good at baseball, plain and simple.
 
We have some young guys who could be in the starting rotation come conference play. Not surprising that they aren't named to the starting rotation before game 1.

Tyler Witt was a top 500 PG recruit.
Rayne Supple was a top 500 PG recruit and was drafted in the 38th round by the Cubs.
Jack Schofield top 500 PG recruit

We have several other top 500 and 1000 recruits but these 3 appear like the most likely to significantly contribute.

We will only go as far as our pitching but we can rake the ball and better pitching could have us competing quite well this year. Looks like the talent on the baseball team is on the way up. To claim the offseason was a fail looking at our class to me is a poor take. Looks like we had a very succcessful offseason.
 
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Putting his foot in the ground saying this team could win a regional.
 
Excited to start watching Gametracker and Live Stats! Seriously though, I thought I read something last year to the effect that Craig was okay with pitching because it was a necessity but he said the preparation did hurt him and the pitching took its toll on him late in the year when the Deacs struggled. Always excited for Deacon baseball.
 
At least we should be fun to watch scoring runs. Hopefully the pitching will be good enough.
 
I'm sure this has been covered, but the new training facility that is under construction (3rd base side of game field) will allegedly be state of the art. Among other things, I'm told it will include a full INDOOR infield.
 
I'm sure this has been covered, but the new training facility that is under construction (3rd base side of game field) will allegedly be state of the art. Among other things, I'm told it will include a full INDOOR infield.

Practice infields seems to be the most common theme among college baseball fields. Good job to Wake for keeping up
 
Terrible take on Craig and the pitchers.

Having played college ball, there's nothing wrong with your best hitter also being a top pitcher. It can be done in college ball and it shouldn't take anything away from the full time pitchers. There's atleast two guys I played with that were all-sec as two way players. Some guys are just good at baseball, plain and simple.

Craig's batting avg and HRs went down the more he pitched. Don't know of an ACC team with a full-time weekend starter who was in the batting starting line-up and was a strong hitter. Don't know every team that well so it may be possible, but I just don't remember it. Seems like he would stick out if there was such a player, but like I said, could have missed it. Best on in Wake history was Danny Borrell but he didn't pitch every weekend. Lead ACC in HRs one year (maybe as DH or 1st baseman) and was ACC POY, IIRC.

Not saying someone can't pitch and hit and be good at both. But being the leader in HRs and a starting pitcher on the weekends for conference games is a different matter.

Craig is our long ball specialist and we need him hitting well to be good, IMO.
 
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Craig's batting avg and HRs went down the more he pitched. Don't know of an ACC team with a full-time weekend started who was in the batting starting line-up and was a strong hitter. Don't know every team that well so it may be possible, but I just don't remember it. Seems like he would stick out if there was someone. Best on in Wake history was Danny Borrell but he didn't pitch every weekend. Lead ACC in HRs one year (maybe as DH or 1st baseman) and was ACC POY, IIRC.

Craig is our long ball specialist and we need him hitting well to be good, IMO.

there is literally a national award given to the best two-way player. brendan mckay, an acc player, won last year.
 
Craig was the ACC POY last year and was a first team all-american. The bulk of that was with his bat, but if he's a solid pitcher and isn't getting beat down physically then I think he's fine.
 
Craig's batting avg and HRs went down the more he pitched. Don't know of an ACC team with a full-time weekend started who was in the batting starting line-up and was a strong hitter. Don't know every team that well so it may be possible, but I just don't remember it. Seems like he would stick out if there was someone. Best on in Wake history was Danny Borrell but he didn't pitch every weekend. Lead ACC in HRs one year (maybe as DH or 1st baseman) and was ACC POY, IIRC.

Craig is our long ball specialist and we need him hitting well to be good, IMO.

His production (as well as the production of the team as a whole) dwindled in the 2nd half of the year, and I think there's a lot of potential reasons for that. Is it possible it was his pitching duties? I guess, though just because nobody successfully juggled those duties in the ACC doesn't mean it isn't possible. The guy I began equating Craig to mid-year last year was UK's AJ Reed. I'm sure Reed's level of success is something Craig aspires to.
 
Hmmm, might just check out a college baseball game in the first time in like forever to see the Deacs when they're at USC.
 
there is literally a national award given to the best two-way player. brendan mckay, an acc player, won last year.

The John Olerud award. Began in 2010. Hultzen won it for UVA in 2012. Left handed STARTING pitcher and 4-hole hitter in their line up that year.

ETA: MiKe McGee won it for FSU in its inaugural year. So that's 3 out of 6 winners from the ACC. Good conferences bring good two way players who are capable of being, two-way players.
 
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