The official 3-weeks of team practice kicks off tomorrow (Friday). Here's the pitching lineup for the first 3 intrasquads...

Friday: Schwarz, Esquivel, Kravetz, Garcia, Moss and Silber
Saturday: Myers, Salinas, Canterino and Orewiler
Sunday: Jefferies, Mueller, Wright, Gayle, Schragger, Parthasarathy and Amador

The good news is that both Parthasarathy and Canterino are already healthy enough (and must have had sufficiently quality bullpens) to pitch competitively to batters. The discouraging news-- Otto continues to be held out.

Walt....are the intrasquads open or closed?

(01-26-2017 09:31 AM)Owl1998 Wrote:  Walt....are the intrasquads open or closed?

Almost always open. The gates to Reckling are open. There's usually two clusters of people in the stands: (1) Roger Towers and some alums in the first rows down the 1B line (by our dugout), and (2) Wayne Graham, the non-competing pitchers and "insiders" in Section F behind home plate. Oftentimes there is also a sprinkling of parents scattered in the upper decks.

(01-26-2017 09:37 AM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  

(01-26-2017 09:31 AM)Owl1998 Wrote:  Walt....are the intrasquads open or closed?

Almost always open. The gates to Reckling are open. There's usually two clusters of people in the stands: (1) Roger Towers and some alums in the first rows down the 1B line (by our dugout), and (2) Wayne Graham, the non-competing pitchers and "insiders" in Section F behind home plate. Oftentimes there is also a sprinkling of parents scattered in the upper decks.

Gotcha....thanks!

(01-26-2017 09:37 AM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  

(01-26-2017 09:31 AM)Owl1998 Wrote:  Walt....are the intrasquads open or closed?

Almost always open. The gates to Reckling are open. There's usually two clusters of people in the stands: (1) Roger Towers and some alums in the first rows down the 1B line (by our dugout), and (2) Wayne Graham, the non-competing pitchers and "insiders" in Section F behind home plate. Oftentimes there is also a sprinkling of parents scattered in the upper decks.

What time do they get going? Might come out on Sunday and check them out.

The RUBPA website usually posts the times of upcoming intrasquads at the link below. Looks like this Sunday's scrimmage is at 1:30.

https://rubpa.rice.edu/Content.aspx?id=4294974558

What is Otto's injury? Overuse?

(01-26-2017 10:37 AM)westsidewolf1989 Wrote:  The RUBPA website usually posts the times of upcoming intrasquads at the link below. Looks like this Sunday's scrimmage is at 1:30.

https://rubpa.rice.edu/Content.aspx?id=4294974558

Thanks Westside!

(01-26-2017 10:40 AM)ExcitedOwl18 Wrote:  What is Otto's injury? Overuse?

No clue, and I haven't asked. I know it's nothing that requires surgery, and I did see him working out with weights daily while in Cuba, so I doubt it's anything like the shoulder impingement (form of tendonitis) Duplantier suffered through a couple years back Who knows-- he could be pitching bullpens. All I know is that he hasn't pitch in intrasquads since the first couple weeks of Fall Ball.

(01-26-2017 11:07 AM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  

(01-26-2017 10:40 AM)ExcitedOwl18 Wrote:  What is Otto's injury? Overuse?

No clue, and I haven't asked. I know it's nothing that requires surgery, and I did see him working out with weights daily while in Cuba, so I doubt it's anything like the shoulder impingement (form of tendonitis) Duplantier suffered through a couple years back Who knows-- he could be pitching bullpens. All I know is that he hasn't pitch in intrasquads since the first couple weeks of Fall Ball.

I'll go sit with the "insiders" in section F this weekend and find out what's up.

(01-26-2017 10:40 AM)ExcitedOwl18 Wrote:  What is Otto's injury? Overuse?

Do I detect a wee bit of sarcasm?

(01-26-2017 04:57 PM)I45owl Wrote:  

(01-26-2017 10:40 AM)ExcitedOwl18 Wrote:  What is Otto's injury? Overuse?

Do I detect a wee bit of sarcasm?

I mean he did pitch a ton last season and then was on Team USA.

I'm not going Keith Law conspiracy, I'm just saying.

The old video scoreboard at Reckling is coming down today. RIP.

(01-26-2017 05:09 PM)ExcitedOwl18 Wrote:  

(01-26-2017 04:57 PM)I45owl Wrote:  

(01-26-2017 10:40 AM)ExcitedOwl18 Wrote:  What is Otto's injury? Overuse?

Do I detect a wee bit of sarcasm?

I mean he did pitch a ton last season and then was on Team USA.

Ok. I wasn't sure, but I thought it was a bit early for that discussion to raise its ugly head.

Some optimism re. Josh Petitte per Mark Berman, but I'll believe it when I see it. That's an awfully quick turnaround from December surgery on a broken bone in the elbow...

Quote:Mark Berman ‏@MarkBermanFox26 44m44 minutes ago
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.@RiceBaseball pitcher Josh Pettitte (@JPettitte21), son of Andy, suffered rare injury leading to his 3rd major surgery.Plans return n April

Go to Mark Berman's twitter feed to see the short (one minute) video interview with Josh.

First day of intrasquads-- and a chilly one at that-- saw both Esquivel and Kravetz each pitch 3 strong innings (though Zach's one hit allowed was a 3-run bomb by Andrew Dunlap, who could be odd man out in the DH competition with Sarchet and Sheppard now on the roster). Silber and Moss each pitched two solid innings, though each gave up a run. Both Sarchet and Sheppard doubled, Gray tripled, Chandler walked 3 times (a great sign!), Warren and Proctor each with a couple singles and a walk and Myers had 3 RBIs.

Here's Roger Tower's recap...
https://rubpa.rice.edu/Content.aspx?id=4294974569

Is the new scoreboard in place?

(01-28-2017 10:27 AM)grol Wrote:  Is the new scoreboard in place?

They were in the process of taking the old one down yesterday.

Is the sb going to be our Achilles heel this year? From the write up I counted 5 sb with no cs. No box score so I don't know what the final tally was. I like the fact that we're running. Just hope the success is due to our speed and not our defense.

(01-28-2017 10:31 AM)RiceBull Wrote:  Is the sb going to be our Achilles heel this year? From the write up I counted 5 sb with no cs. No box score so I don't know what the final tally was. I like the fact that we're running. Just hope the success is due to our speed and not our defense.

We haven't consistently stolen bases even when we have "speed" in the lineup. I'm taking that as a bad sign at this point.