IU Baseball Offseason Updates

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battle for friday starter between hobbie, stiever and milto.  all had great summers.  despite losing kesler and our entire weekend rotation, maybe the pitching wont be as much a concern as we anticipated.  sabol and belcher return after great years; stephenson is a solid returning veteran; inexperienced guys like sedat, herrin, foote look to break through; and several good pitching prospects come in.

i just looked at perfect game's commit list for the first time in a while.  12 of 13 commits in 2017 are from indiana, and 6 of 7 in 2018 are from indiana.  safe to say lemo and staff have prioritized getting the top hoosier players.  the two in those classes not from indiana are from wisconsin and michigan, and the lone commit in 2019 looks to be an elite prospect (says he received interest from louisville, vanderbilt, mississippi, texas a&m, tcu) from missouri.  13 of 14 commits in 2016, counting szynski and suwinski who signed pro deals, are from the midwest too.

the team for the foreseeable future will have a very strong hoosier and midwestern pride.

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‏@PGPatrickEbert: Reports now up for top 10 Prospect League prospects including #1 Brian Hobbie @B_Sakowski_PG http://www.perfectgame.org/Articles/View.aspx?article=13123 …

Player of the Year: Aaron Meyer, 2b, DuPage Drones (Missouri State)
Pitcher of the Year: Brian Hobbie, rhp, Terre Haute Rex (Indiana)

PITCHING LEADERS
Wins: Mike Anthony, rhp, Kokomo Jackrabbits (Lock Haven) (7)
ERA: Brian Hobbie, rhp, Terre Haute Rex (Indiana) (0.82)
Saves: Sean Frontzak, rhp, DuPage Drones (Saint Louis) (11)
Strikeouts: Jacob Belinda, rhp, West Virginia Miners (Lock Haven) (69)

BEST TOOLS
Best athlete: Nick Delgado, of, West Virginia (West Alabama)
Best hitter: Aaron Meyer, 2b, DuPage Drones (Missouri State)
Best power: Joey Polak, 1b/3b, Quincy Gems (South Carolina)
Best speed: Aaron Bence, of, Lafayette Aviators (Murray State)
Best defender: Josh Smith, ss, Danville Dans (Louisiana State)
Best velocity: Casey Sullivan, rhp, Danville Dans (Louisiana Tech)
Best breaking stuff: Connor Coward, rhp, Butler (Virginia Tech)
Best command: Brian Hobbie, rhp, Terre Haute Rex (Indiana)

TOP 10 PROSPECTS
1. Brian Hobbie, rhp, Terre Haute (Indiana/JR in 2017)
Hobbie collected Pitcher of the Year honers in the Prospect League in 2016, after an outstanding summer that saw him go 4-2 for the Rex with a league-best 0.82 ERA in 54 2/3 innings pitched. Collectively, coaches and scouts around the league mentioned Hobbie the most when talking about best command, and that is further evidenced by his mere 11 walks in those 54 2/3 innings. His best off-speed pitch at present is the changeup, thrown in the mid- to upper-70s with late, fading action and excellent deception out of the hand due to his arm speed and intent. His fastball will usually work in the 88-92 mph range, clocking up to 93-94 at times, with heavy sinking life and arm-side bore. The slider is the third pitch in the starter’s repertoire right now, but will still show as an average pitch once in awhile, and is mostly thrown in the upper-70s as a get-me-over strike, but he has shown the ability to tighten/sharpen it up into the low-80s and use it as a put-away pitch against righthanded hitters. He’s likely to be counted on more and more heavily in Bloomington in 2017, as the Hoosiers have seen several 2016 contributors leave via the draft and/or graduation, and Hobbie has a chance to establish himself on MLB Draft boards.

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Glowing report. Impressive


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From Osterman:  Per this story, former @HoosierBaseball SS Nick Ramos has transferred to Arizona State, will play for Tracy Smith as grad student.

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#iubase with the No. 1 class in the Big Ten and 28th overall nationally.


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Fall ball this weekend.  Anyone going?

9/30 - Bellarmine @ 7 pm ET

10/1 - MSU @ 2:30 pm ET

 

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Fall ball this weekend.  Anyone going?

9/30 - Bellarmine @ 7 pm ET

10/1 - MSU @ 2:30 pm ET

 

Wish I could. Love fall ball. Will be working unfortunately.


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Perfect Game Top 75 incoming freshmen in the B1G.

3 - C Jacob Matheny
7 - 2B Matthew Gorski
9 - LHP Jack Eagan
14 - SS Jeremy Houston
22 - RHP Cameron Beauchamp
31 - LHP Andrew Salfrank
37 - 3B Cal Krueger
55 - RHP Brad Littleton
64 - RHP Justin Reed

NR - LHP Grant Negris
NR - LHP Matt Petrosino
NR - 1B Patrick Loeffler
NR - JUCO INF/RHP Matt Lloyd

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D1 Baseball Fall Report. 

Every now and then, a program unexpectedly makes a huge splash on the national scene, riding a special group of veteran players to a super regional or Omaha, then fading back into the pack just as quickly. It’s one thing to catch lightning in a bottle; it’s another thing to sustain consistent success. In the case of Indiana, which made just its third regional in program history in 2013 on the way to the College World Series and then followed it up with a national seed the following year, the question was this: What would the Hoosiers do without Kyle Schwarber and Sam Travis and Joey DeNato and Dustin DeMuth — and coach Tracy Smith, who left for Arizona State after that 2014 season?

So far, coach Chris Lemonis has shown that Indiana can keep on winning without that special core. The Hoosiers made it back to regionals for a third straight year in 2015, and they nearly made it four in a row last year before getting cold in the final two weeks, losing six of their last seven games. Even so, they finished 15-9 in the Big Ten, tied for third place, just outside NCAA tournament position.

It looks like the Hoosiers are built to get back to regionals in 2017 thanks to a veteran, talented core of position players — but much depends on how well the overhauled pitching staff performs.

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D1 Baseball Fall Report. 

Every now and then, a program unexpectedly makes a huge splash on the national scene, riding a special group of veteran players to a super regional or Omaha, then fading back into the pack just as quickly. It’s one thing to catch lightning in a bottle; it’s another thing to sustain consistent success. In the case of Indiana, which made just its third regional in program history in 2013 on the way to the College World Series and then followed it up with a national seed the following year, the question was this: What would the Hoosiers do without Kyle Schwarber and Sam Travis and Joey DeNato and Dustin DeMuth — and coach Tracy Smith, who left for Arizona State after that 2014 season?

So far, coach Chris Lemonis has shown that Indiana can keep on winning without that special core. The Hoosiers made it back to regionals for a third straight year in 2015, and they nearly made it four in a row last year before getting cold in the final two weeks, losing six of their last seven games. Even so, they finished 15-9 in the Big Ten, tied for third place, just outside NCAA tournament position.

It looks like the Hoosiers are built to get back to regionals in 2017 thanks to a veteran, talented core of position players — but much depends on how well the overhauled pitching staff performs.

Love this. Really would love to see the continued success of these guys. Can we be a basketball/football/baseball school?!?!?


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3 minutes ago, hsrtxp said:

Love this. Really would love to see the continued success of these guys. Can we be a basketball/football/baseball school?!?!?


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Soccer?  Our most successful team sport

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Soccer?  Our most successful team sport

True, true! Duly noted.




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1 hour ago, hsrtxp said:

Love this. Really would love to see the continued success of these guys. Can we be a basketball/football/baseball school?!?!?


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1 hour ago, Brass Cannon said:

Soccer?  Our most successful team sport

He had that covered... football!  We lost last week so obviously we're not an American football school this week! 

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On 9/27/2016 at 8:33 AM, ccgeneral said:

Fall ball this weekend.  Anyone going?

9/30 - Bellarmine @ 7 pm ET

10/1 - MSU @ 2:30 pm ET

 

Schedule change for this weekend.

10/1 - MSU @ 230 pm ET

10/2 - Bellarmine @ 2 pm ET

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22 hours ago, ccgeneral said:

Schedule change for this weekend.

10/1 - MSU @ 230 pm ET

10/2 - Bellarmine @ 2 pm ET

MSU has some Audio for the game. 

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Playing 12 innings today. Here's who we started with.

Eustace CF
Dedelow LF
Sowers RF
Lloyd 3B
Fineman C
Cangelosi 1B
Gorski DH
Houston SS
Stratten 2B
Hobbie P

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Dedelow tearing it up today!

@HoosierBaseball: The Hoosiers have scored seven runs on nine hits through four innings against Bellarmine. Craig Dedelow is 3-for-3 with two home runs.

 

 

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Alot of the rookies got some work in on the bump today. Next games will be announced early next week.

@HoosierBaseball: Andrew Salfrank, Cal Krueger, Jack Eagan, Austin Foote and Cam Beauchamp have combined allowing only four hits through 7 innings.

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We host Xavier tomorrow @ 3:30 pm ET.