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WF Baseball Off-season Thread

from d1:

Seaver King, INF, Wake Forest (2024) — King is one of those development stories we love to see in college sports. An undersized infielder coming out of high school in Athens, Ga., King began his career at Division II Wingate (N.C.). After two strong seasons there, including a 2023 season in which he batted .411/.457/.699, and after growing a couple of inches and putting on weight at Wingate, King is transferring to Wake Forest. Like Culpepper, King split his time this summer between the Cape and the Collegiate National Team. King was only with Harwich for 16 games, but for those 16 games, he was among the best hitters in the league, as he batted .424 in 59 at-bats. He has a quick, short, line-drive stroke that is likely to produce doubles power more than home run power, but in a windy, hitter-friendly environment at Wake Forest next season, he will also likely hit his fair share of homers. Defensively, he’s a quick-twitch athlete who can play anywhere on the infield dirt. His arm is ahead of his hands at present, but the most impressive asset for him defensively might be how intuitive he is in positioning himself and understanding the game situation in the moment. With his performance this summer, King showed that he’s not only ready to compete at the high Division I level but that he’s one of the best players at this level.
 
IAppreciateIt said:
from d1:

Seaver King, INF, Wake Forest (2024) — King is one of those development stories we love to see in college sports. An undersized infielder coming out of high school in Athens, Ga., King began his career at Division II Wingate (N.C.). After two strong seasons there, including a 2023 season in which he batted .411/.457/.699, and after growing a couple of inches and putting on weight at Wingate, King is transferring to Wake Forest. Like Culpepper, King split his time this summer between the Cape and the Collegiate National Team. King was only with Harwich for 16 games, but for those 16 games, he was among the best hitters in the league, as he batted .424 in 59 at-bats. He has a quick, short, line-drive stroke that is likely to produce doubles power more than home run power, but in a windy, hitter-friendly environment at Wake Forest next season, he will also likely hit his fair share of homers. Defensively, he’s a quick-twitch athlete who can play anywhere on the infield dirt. His arm is ahead of his hands at present, but the most impressive asset for him defensively might be how intuitive he is in positioning himself and understanding the game situation in the moment. With his performance this summer, King showed that he’s not only ready to compete at the high Division I level but that he’s one of the best players at this level.
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What's infield dirt?
 
No Wilken?

If not understand a late 1st doing end up on the top list but if he keeps hitting the way he does he may end up on it
 
Bourne v. Orleans in the Cape League Championship.

No Deacs, but Massey and JJ were supposed to play for Bourne. The big bat for them has been Bender from Coastal.
 
Will any drafted Wake players play on any minor league teams that will play the Dash, the Rockers or Grasshoppers?
 
GoDeacsGo said:
Will any drafted Wake players play on any minor league teams that will play the Dash, the Rockers or Grasshoppers?
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Seth Keener could pitch for the Dash at some point given he was drafted by the White Sox. Former Deac Eric Adler is pitching for them now. The only other team I see in that league with the Dash/Grasshoppers with a drafted Wake guy from this year is Jersey Shore a farm team of the Phillies who drafted Pierce Bennett. But both Bennett and Keener are with rookie league teams for the moment.

Rockers would be a definite no for the short term at least since they are an independent league and not affiliated with Major League Baseball.
 
Listened to this podcast on a long drive this weekend with Chris Lewis who was the director of our analytics team and recently got a job with the Blue Jays as a pitching analyst. Long and the interviewer is kind of a goober, but some really interesting insight into how the Analytics team worked with our team.

More than anything, it's pretty remarkable to me how much our student body has actually been able to make a difference with the success of our team. Wonder if that's something that could be exploited in other sports -- obviously the mindset of the coaching staff seems like biggest factor, which probably requires a lot of both progressiveness and patience.

 
I'm interested, but that's a 2.5 hour interview. Could you note some highlights? I'm fascinated by a student analytics team and I agree they could do some real good in other sports.
 
Jack Winnay just finished his Summer playing for the Vermont Lake Monsters in the Futures Collegiate Baseball League. His stats for the Summer:

.286 AVG 84 ABs 17 R 24 H 9 2Bs 2 3Bs 3 HRs 13 RBI 11 BBs 16 Ks 1 E

This is a wood bat league, and Vermont plays in a former minor league stadium with sizeable dimensions (330 down the lines; 405 in center -- kind of the opposite of the Couch) 3 HRs led the team. Vermont lost in the FCBL final yesterday 2-1.



Link to the article on the championship game

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MLB Pipeline ranks the top 30 prospects for each MLB team:

The link

They just updated their prospect rankings post-2023 MLB draft.

The Deacs:

Lowder: #2 Reds
Wilken: #8 Brewers
Sullivan: #13 Rockies
Keener: #14 White Sox
McGraw: #17 Mariners
Adler: #28 White Sox
Cusick: #28 A's
 
Pilchard said:
MLB Pipeline ranks the top 30 prospects for each MLB team:

The link

They just updated their prospect rankings post-2023 MLB draft.

The Deacs:

Lowder: #2 Reds
Wilken: #8 Brewers
Sullivan: #13 Rockies
Keener: #14 White Sox
McGraw: #17 Mariners
Adler: #28 White Sox
Cusick: #28 A's
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Wake had a ridiculous amount of talent on the 2023 team. Especially pitchers.
 
IAppreciateIt said:
from d1:

Seaver King, INF, Wake Forest (2024) — King is one of those development stories we love to see in college sports. An undersized infielder coming out of high school in Athens, Ga., King began his career at Division II Wingate (N.C.). After two strong seasons there, including a 2023 season in which he batted .411/.457/.699, and after growing a couple of inches and putting on weight at Wingate, King is transferring to Wake Forest. Like Culpepper, King split his time this summer between the Cape and the Collegiate National Team. King was only with Harwich for 16 games, but for those 16 games, he was among the best hitters in the league, as he batted .424 in 59 at-bats. He has a quick, short, line-drive stroke that is likely to produce doubles power more than home run power, but in a windy, hitter-friendly environment at Wake Forest next season, he will also likely hit his fair share of homers. Defensively, he’s a quick-twitch athlete who can play anywhere on the infield dirt. His arm is ahead of his hands at present, but the most impressive asset for him defensively might be how intuitive he is in positioning himself and understanding the game situation in the moment. With his performance this summer, King showed that he’s not only ready to compete at the high Division I level but that he’s one of the best players at this level.
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Winston-Salem/Wake Forest has a windy environment.
 
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