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GManVFL said:
I heard Redman Walsh, one our new lefty's, tore his UCL in a scrimmage last week. I hate it for that kid because he's a great guy, but I hate it for the team too. I know its not, but dang this seems like an epidemic.
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That really stinks!! We need some LH help badly with him and Soto out. I saw him in HS and he looked like he could help. Hopefully Heflin will be full speed for the spring. What was once a deep staff is dwindling some. No more injuries please!
 
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zachpack said:
That really stinks!! We need some LH help badly with him and Soto out. I saw him in HS and he looked like he could help. Hopefully Heflin will be full speed for the spring. What was once a deep staff is dwindling some. No more injuries please!
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Agreed. I hear Heflin is already back on the mound working out daily. Not expected in a scrimmage until spring though. Glad they are not pushing that. He needs to come back slow and strong. He will be a different kind of problem to go with all that right handed horsepower from Lingo and Schultz.
 
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Reports: Florida commits long-term to baseball coach Kevin Sullivan with 10-year extension | OnlyGators.com


Sullivan has signed a 10-year, $12.5 million extension with the Gators that will keep him with the team through the 2025 season, according to Kendall Rogers of D1Baseball and Jordan McPherson of the Miami Herald.

O’Sullivan, now one of the three highest-paid baseball coaches in the nation per Rodgers, will also reportedly receive a $500,000 signing bonus. Should Florida wish to part ways with O’Sullivan at any time, he would receive $500,000 per season as a buyout. It is unknown whether there is any mitigation as part of that buyout.
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Kendall Rogers ‏@KendallRogersD1 51m51 minutes ago
That salary for O’Sullivan plus the near $30 million in renovations on the way = good times for @GatorsBB to say the least.
 
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FWIW, 2017 Draft: Preseason Top 100 College Prospects (SEC Edition) by D1 Baseball.com:

1 J.J. Schwarz C Florida
2 Alex Lange RHP LSU
3 Tanner Houck RHP Missouri
5 Kyle Wright RHP Vanderbilt
6 Alex Faedo RHP Florida
7 Jeren Kendall OF Vanderbilt
18 Corbin Martin RHP Texas A&M
23 Bryce Montes de Oca RHP Missouri
24 Alex Destino 1B South Carolina
25 Jace Vines RHP Texas A&M
27 Tyler Ivey RHP Texas A&M
29 Evan White 1B/OF Kentucky
30 Mike Rivera C Florida
38 Dalton Guthrie SS Florida
40 Clarke Schmidt RHP South Carolina
47 Keaton McKinney RHP Arkansas
53 Zach Warren LHP Tennessee
69 Zach Pop RHP Kentucky
73 Brandon Murray RHP South Carolina
75 Benito Santiago C Tennessee
76 Mike Papierski C LSU
78 Turner Larkins RHP Texas A&M
79 Deacon Liput 3B Florida
80 Cason Sherrod RHP Texas A&M
82 Chad Spanberger OF Arkansas
85 Chandler Avant SS Alabama
90 Bo Tucker LHP Georgia
92 Luke Bonfield OF Arkansas
97 Shane Benes 3B Missouri
98 Keegan McGovern OF Georgia
 
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Aaron Fitt ‏@aaronfitt 9h9 hours ago
After watching Bama, South Al, Troy, Auburn this wknd, @SouthALBaseball strikes me as best in the state: potential Top 25 club, lots of arms
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The Official Website of the South Alabama Jaguars

Mark Calvi - Head Coach
Mark Calvi became the fifth head coach in South Alabama baseball history at the conclusion of the 2011 season, after spending the year as associate head coach/head coach in waiting, and begins his fourth season as Jaguar head coach in 2015.

In just his second season at the helm, Calvi led the Jaguars to their 14th Sun Belt Conference championship and 25th NCAA Regional appearance after recording the program’s first 40-plus win season since 2003 and was named the Sun Belt Conference Coach of the Year and American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA)/Diamond South Central Region Coach of the Year.

Seven Jags earned all-conference honors in 2013, and Jordan Patterson was named the Sun Belt Conference Player of the Year becoming just the sixth Jaguar in the program’s history to earn the honor. Patterson and Kyle Bartsch also earned ABCA South/Central all-region honors. Bartsch, Patterson, Nolan Earley and Dylan Stamey were selected in the 2013 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft. Patterson (4th round, 109th pick) became South Alabama’s highest draftee since Adam Lind was taken by the Toronto Blue Jays in the third round of the 2004 MLB Draft.

In his first season at South Alabama, Calvi led the Jaguars to their highest Sun Belt Conference Tournament seed (No. 4) since the 2006 season. USA closed the 2012 campaign with consecutive wins over Western Kentucky and Florida Atlantic to close the SBC Championship.

Three Jaguars received all-conference honors in 2012: Whitt Dorsey (1st team, DH), Jordan Patterson (2nd team, OF) and Jarron Cito (2nd team, RHP). It marked the first time since the 2007 season that South Alabama placed three or more student-athletes on the all-conference team. Cito became the first Jaguar pitcher to earn all-conference honors since P.J. Walters in 2006.

The USA pitching staff increased its strikeout total by 70 (435) in 2012 – the highest team total since 2008 (427). South Alabama’s 13 team saves were the most by a Jaguar staff since 2003 (15).

Calvi came to South Alabama from the University of South Carolina, where he served as pitching coach for six seasons. In 2010, Calvi’s Gamecock pitching staff led USC to the national championship, ranking in the top 10 in earned run average (seventh, 3.45), strikeouts (sixth, 8.9) and hits allowed per nine innings (third, 7.48), after posting a 2.15 ERA in seven College World Series contests, which was nearly a point lower than the next best team in Omaha. The Gamecocks led the Southeastern Conference in ERA and innings pitched, but also allowed the fewest hits in the conference.

Calvi was named the recipient of the Eighth Annual Pitching Coach of the Year Award by Collegiate Baseball News in September 2010 for his efforts in helping lead the Gamecocks to the national title.

In his career, which spans 21 years at the collegiate level, including an 11-season stint at fellow Sun Belt Conference member Florida International, Calvi has worked with over 40 pitchers who have either been drafted or signed with Major League Baseball teams – that includes seven who have reached the majors - along with position players Jackie Bradley Jr. and Christian Walker.

In three of his six seasons at USC, Calvi’s pitching staffs finished with an ERA of below 4.00, and ranked in the top five in the SEC in the category four times during that stretch.

The Gamecocks ranked in the top 50 in ERA four times during Calvi’s six seasons, and also finished in the top 50 in hits allowed and strikeouts per nine innings each of his last three seasons.

During Calvi’s six seasons with the program, the Gamecocks reached an NCAA Regional every year, advanced to three Super Regionals and claimed the 2010 CWS title. USC posted an overall record of 262-140 (.668) during his tenure there. Additionally, three of his hurlers earned Freshman All-America honors while Blake Cooper, who Calvi helped end the year second in the country in wins (13) and 10th in strikeouts (126), was voted to multiple All-America squads in 2010.

Prior to joining the staff at South Carolina, Calvi was an assistant at FIU for 11 years. During his time with the Golden Panthers, they advanced to an NCAA Regional seven times while moving on to the 2001 Super Regional. His staff led the country in ERA in 1995 (2.40) – FIU’s 16 shutouts that spring are tied for the sixth-highest total in NCAA history – and ’99 (3.07), and in 1998 the Golden Panthers’ 675 strikeouts were tops in the nation. Calvi’s unit recorded an ERA that finished in the top 10 in the NCAA five times.

His efforts in Miami helped Joseph Burns pace the nation with a 1.20 ERA during the 1995 campaign, while a year later Evan Thomas led the country with 220 strikeouts – the latter is the fourth-highest figure ever in the NCAA. In all, Calvi produced eight All-Americans and 13 all-conference selections with the Golden Panthers.

Calvi was a three-year letterwinner as a catcher at Nova Southeastern, and after he earned his bachelor’s degree in secondary education, he signed a professional contract with the Seattle Mariners. Following a season in which he helped his team win the Northwest League championship, he worked for a year as a scout for the Mariners.

A native of Marco Island, Fla., Calvi and his wife Kaylie have one daughter, Taylor.
 
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#83
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RollerVol said:
any new audio/video streaming equipment...:)

GO VOLS...BEAT EVERYBODY!
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yes they did, the Administration added a few $$ for enhanced video streaming...thank you DH!

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vol66 said:
Welp...See yawl for the non-conference portion of the schedule...






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GBO!!!
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is that a 2-run triple by Brodie or a strikeout looking pitched from Warren? Need to brush-up on my smoke signals....
 
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Aaron Fitt ‏@aaronfitt 9h9 hours ago
FALL REPORT: @GatorsBB shouldn’t miss a beat even after losing 7 players picked in top 4 rounds. They just reload 🔒 Fall Report: Florida | D1Baseball.com
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. — It’s hard to fathom the notion that Florida could lose a pair of top-50 picks from its weekend rotation — No. 6 pick A.J. Puk and No. 47 pick Logan Shore — and yet have a chance to be even better in the rotation the following season. But that’s the reality for the Gators in the Kevin O’Sullivan era; no program in college baseball reloads year-in and year-out better than Florida.

Last year’s Sunday starter, junior righthander Alex Faedo, will move to Fridays and looks like one of the early favorites for national Player of the Year honors and the No. 1 overall pick, despite minor arthroscopic knee surgery that sidelined him for fall ball. And sophomore righties Brady Singer and Jackson Kowar have both been electric this fall, with fastballs reaching the mid-90s and wipeout secondary stuff — particularly Singer’s breaking ball and Kowar’s tumbling changeup. Both of them have the talent to be top-10 overall picks in 2018. Both also feature better pitchability than Puk, meaning Florida’s rotation should be more consistent from front to back than it was a year ago.

“The strength of our team is going to be our starting pitching on the weekend,” O’Sullivan said after a recent scrimmage in Gainesville. “We’ll have enough arms to get through the midweeks. We just have to figure out in the first month who we can count on at the end of the game. And I think the lineup one through nine is going to be really good. We have a lot of interchangeable parts.”

One of the many reasons Florida is able to reload annually with such success is that blue-chip freshmen know they’ll get legitimate chances to win starting jobs right away, because O’Sullivan doesn’t shy away from rolling with young players. O’Sullivan said he thinks the Gators have had 16 freshmen All-Americans by various publications in his nine years at Florida. “If you want to be a freshman All-American, you’ve got to play,” he said. “So I’m not afraid to play the young guys.”......

needless to say the rest of the article talks about how loaded they are.
 
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OldTimer said:
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. — It’s hard to fathom the notion that Florida could lose a pair of top-50 picks from its weekend rotation — No. 6 pick A.J. Puk and No. 47 pick Logan Shore — and yet have a chance to be even better in the rotation the following season. But that’s the reality for the Gators in the Kevin O’Sullivan era; no program in college baseball reloads year-in and year-out better than Florida.

Last year’s Sunday starter, junior righthander Alex Faedo, will move to Fridays and looks like one of the early favorites for national Player of the Year honors and the No. 1 overall pick, despite minor arthroscopic knee surgery that sidelined him for fall ball. And sophomore righties Brady Singer and Jackson Kowar have both been electric this fall, with fastballs reaching the mid-90s and wipeout secondary stuff — particularly Singer’s breaking ball and Kowar’s tumbling changeup. Both of them have the talent to be top-10 overall picks in 2018. Both also feature better pitchability than Puk, meaning Florida’s rotation should be more consistent from front to back than it was a year ago.

“The strength of our team is going to be our starting pitching on the weekend,” O’Sullivan said after a recent scrimmage in Gainesville. “We’ll have enough arms to get through the midweeks. We just have to figure out in the first month who we can count on at the end of the game. And I think the lineup one through nine is going to be really good. We have a lot of interchangeable parts.”

One of the many reasons Florida is able to reload annually with such success is that blue-chip freshmen know they’ll get legitimate chances to win starting jobs right away, because O’Sullivan doesn’t shy away from rolling with young players. O’Sullivan said he thinks the Gators have had 16 freshmen All-Americans by various publications in his nine years at Florida. “If you want to be a freshman All-American, you’ve got to play,” he said. “So I’m not afraid to play the young guys.”......

needless to say the rest of the article talks about how loaded they are.
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Just what we need today, more bad news. :)
I am ready for baseball season.
 
#92
#92
Mike Rooney
@Mike_Rooney: Can you name the 4 College Baseball programs that produced a first round pick (including comp picks) in both 2015 & 2016? #PlayerDev

The answer: Tennessee, Vandy, Florida, Louisville
 
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31VFL said:
Mike Rooney
@Mike_Rooney: Can you name the 4 College Baseball programs that produced a first round pick (including comp picks) in both 2015 & 2016? #PlayerDev

The answer: Tennessee, Vandy, Florida, Louisville
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now we just need to fill in the rounds between 2 and 5.....
 
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31VFL said:
Mike Rooney
@Mike_Rooney: Can you name the 4 College Baseball programs that produced a first round pick (including comp picks) in both 2015 & 2016? #PlayerDev

The answer: Tennessee, Vandy, Florida, Louisville
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What about Illinois?

2015 #6 Tyler Jay RHP
2016 #27 Cody Sedlock LHP
 
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#98
Mississippi State Set To Hire Andy Cannizaro

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Mississippi State Set To Hire Andy Cannizaro | D1Baseball.com

It’s been a busy past couple of days at Mississippi State as long-time head baseball coach John Cohen will be announced the school’s new athletic director on Friday. Now, the Bulldogs are again in the headlines as Cohen has chosen heralded LSU assistant Andy Cannizaro as his replacement, the program will officially announce in the coming days.....
 
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