(11-23-2021 11:25 AM)Dukester Wrote:  

(11-22-2021 11:01 PM)MarginalDuke Wrote:  This year is definitely going to be a growing pain year, it’s hard to project even a Diamond depth chart when we lost most of the starting lineup. This is going to be a very young team with a lot of new starters. Returning starters classified as starting > 50% of games. Here are the class counts.

Overall:
r-Sr - 1
r-Jr - 4 (1 returning starter shared by Shifflett and Hall, Hall who would DP for Shifflett)
r-So - 2 (1 returning starter in Phillips)
So - 6 (2 returning starters in Bernett and Humphrey*)
Fr - 9

The freshmen should be very interesting as there were a few highly rated recruits in the batch. In two years’ time this could be a very dangerous team (similar to the WCWS team) but this will most likely mimic Loren’s first year in (43-14, 1-2 Knoxville regional) where the 2021 stars were Fr./So.

Position players maybe, but this team does not have a Megan Good caliber pitcher/player. That is a HUGE difference.

I say this not to knock the team, but set reasonable expectations. I think/hope in 2023 we will be increasing our pitching talent. Alissa is a potential CAA POY, and should continue to fair well/dominate in CAA play, but "I" don't think she has yet shown she can hold her own versus top 40 lineups.