So Wilkie and Owen are gone

I think all of the signees except Nunez will be on the team next season. When HS guys fall outside of the 10th round its because they gave teams a big number to sign them away from college and no team would do it. So with Collyer I think he ends up at Clemson. Also I put out a tweet on how big it was going to be for Monte to finally get his top signees on campus and Collyer retweeted it so I took that to mean he was coming to school. I was also surprised to see Wilkie and Griffith go that high, especially Griffith going before Spiers. But C are a hot commodity, especially ones who hit for average like Wilkie so it kind of makes sense a team would take a shot at it. Griffith has really big time strike out stuff but also has 38 walks in 59 career innings. That's not good so im surprised someone went with him that early. Im more concerned with how pitchers are developing at Clemson. They don't seem to be developing like they should. Arizona State fired their pitching coach today because they got embarrassed in their regional. Think we could see some changes on our staff as well. Something has to change. Monte is the right guy imo but the coaches around him are not very highly thought of in the coaching world.

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Re: So Wilkie and Owen are gone

Jun 5, 2019, 4:14 PM

The first game of the season indicated to me many of our players needed batting instructions and made a post on this board or another board regarding this issue. First off, I am not an expert. I was not a good player but I did learn a few things about the game and coached Little League in Florida for several years. First, one must learn to develop a swing and. second, one must learn to recognize a pitch. Stance is important but I've seen lots of good hitters with a horrible stance.

A player must learn to bat within his limitations. A player who is a single or doubles hitter should not approach the place hoping to hit a home run, but bat to his potential. We've stranded so many runners on base for the lack of a single, often time this year with the bases loaded and an opportunity to win the game. We fans clamor for the home run but let the home run hitters do their job. Their singles and doubles will score the runs more often than not.

Being able to recognize pitches is not an easy task. We often keep the bat on our shoulder when the ball is there for our taking and swing at a pitch more suitable for a pitching wedge rather than a baseball bat. The batter has very little time to process all of the necessary information when the ball is coming at the batter at a speed of 90 MPH. This is where training, practice and instinct play an important role.

It's easy for us fans who sit in the stands to criticize players and their play on he field but we sometimes have the ability to recognize correctable issues.