(12-14-2021 10:55 AM)JMad03 Wrote:  It still baffles me the nerve of the CAA to brag about players they have denied opportunities for out of spite.
I would much rather they just pretend we didn't exist or acknowledge our success instead of riding our coattails.
I've said it before, and I'll keep saying it: I hope the CAA and its school presidents crumble and fail. They deserve it.

Yeah, consistently tweeting out the accolades of our athletes while also banning them from championship play is a bad look. Beat UVA and there they are bragging it up, while banning them from post season play and taking away our other TV games. Bragging up our softball pitchers international success has zero to do with the conference. Do they think they can ride our coat tails to good publicity? Not if any prospective student-athlete reads the well-deserved responses from our own athletes, coaches, parents and fans. They need to just cease with that nonsense, let them finish out their CAA seasons, cash that large check we owe them and move along never pushing another JMU release, other than the league-wide awards.

(12-14-2021 11:37 AM)VerizonSportsFan Wrote:  

(12-14-2021 10:43 AM)olddawg Wrote:  How did our, mediocre at best, baseball program land him?

He was approx 5'9" 155lbs in HS

https://www.ncsasports.org/baseball-recr...-delauter1

Ok- That explains it (though Dirty's answer was pretty good!)
So he's our baseball version of David Robinson with that growth spurt.
Kid grew 7 inches and added 75 lbs since high school. And he still managed to drop a half a second on his 60 yard time.

(12-13-2021 07:29 PM)PurpleRain Wrote:  Orioles pick 1.1 so him going 1.1 is definitely in play. With the Orioles, what you agree to sign for is a big factor in who they draft. (Wanting to get the most talent per $ spent). On top of this, the current group of orioles decision makers have exclusively gone college bats in the first round.

The orioles caring about signability for the 1-1 pick is why they keep picking 1-1. That guy's going to play for 10% of his market value the first 6 years he's in the bigs and they're quibbling over making it 8%.

I'm so glad I don't have to try to care about that sorry excuse for a team anymore.

Nats? Orioles?!! Jeez what did he do to make y’all dislike him so much?

Hey anyone know JMU’s highest picked player?

(12-14-2021 08:43 PM)POTUS#4 Wrote:  Hey anyone know JMU’s highest picked player?

Dan Meyer (2002) 1-34
Kellen Kulbacki (2007) 1-40

http://www.thebaseballcube.com/college/s...View=Draft

McNichol and Meyer both went #34, Meyer was sandwich pick, McNichol was a second rounder.

Kulbacki was also a sandwich pick at 40.

(12-14-2021 08:43 PM)POTUS#4 Wrote:  Nats? Orioles?!! Jeez what did he do to make y’all dislike him so much?

Hey anyone know JMU’s highest picked player?

I mean one of those teams has a World Series title within the last 26 months and has been consistently one of the best run teams in Major League Baseball.

(12-15-2021 10:49 AM)All Dukes_All Day Wrote:  

(12-14-2021 08:43 PM)POTUS#4 Wrote:  Nats? Orioles?!! Jeez what did he do to make y’all dislike him so much?

Hey anyone know JMU’s highest picked player?

I mean one of those teams has a World Series title within the last 26 months and has been consistently one of the best run teams in Major League Baseball.

Lol...I'm an O's fan and would LOVE to have a Duke on the team, but man...not sure I'd wish that fate on one of our guys.

(12-15-2021 10:51 AM)jmufan2008 Wrote:  

(12-15-2021 10:49 AM)All Dukes_All Day Wrote:  

(12-14-2021 08:43 PM)POTUS#4 Wrote:  Nats? Orioles?!! Jeez what did he do to make y’all dislike him so much?

Hey anyone know JMU’s highest picked player?

I mean one of those teams has a World Series title within the last 26 months and has been consistently one of the best run teams in Major League Baseball.

Lol...I'm an O's fan and would LOVE to have a Duke on the team, but man...not sure I'd wish that fate on one of our guys.

Farm is deep for them though. By the time DeLauter would get called (likely not until the 2025 season) up they actually could be in contention.

(12-15-2021 10:59 AM)All Dukes_All Day Wrote:  

(12-15-2021 10:51 AM)jmufan2008 Wrote:  

(12-15-2021 10:49 AM)All Dukes_All Day Wrote:  

(12-14-2021 08:43 PM)POTUS#4 Wrote:  Nats? Orioles?!! Jeez what did he do to make y’all dislike him so much?

Hey anyone know JMU’s highest picked player?

I mean one of those teams has a World Series title within the last 26 months and has been consistently one of the best run teams in Major League Baseball.

Lol...I'm an O's fan and would LOVE to have a Duke on the team, but man...not sure I'd wish that fate on one of our guys.

Farm is deep for them though. By the time DeLauter would get called (likely not until the 2025 season) up they actually could be in contention.

Deep with outfielders. Nine out of their top fifteen picks over the last three years have been college OF's. Add to that two of their top young MLB players, Cedric Mullins and Adam Hays are OF's. Usually I'm all for the "best possible" draft strategy in baseball, but they need some premium talent elsewhere if they plan on contending anytime relatively soon.

I see a lot of Cape League games and while I am biased, Chase is the best pure hitter I have seen here in a long time. He has power to all fields and most of these pitchers are throwing 90+. The thing I was most impressed with though was his athleticism. He robbed a home run one night that no mortal should be able to get to. There is a video on twitter of him doing a backflip. Pretty impressive for his size. I can't wait to see him play this year at JMU.