While writing these pieces, I’ve started to love College Baseball more and more. Of course, I love Baseball, but I never followed college sports too much. Thanks to this series, I’ve deepened my knowledge about the game and the prospects to look out for in the upcoming years. Not to mention how many ups and downs come along with College Baseball. For example, Texas A&M, no one thought they were going to get off to that horrible start. Now they’ve won 7 in a row, including 2 wins against #4 Tennessee.
To piggyback off of the Texas A&M talk, let’s give Jace Laviolette some love. After not getting off to a hot start, he has started to turn it on. Jace has worked his way up to a .297 average along with 11 longballs. He is also tied for first in walks in the SEC with 39. I’ve mentioned it before, and I’ll do it again: Jace may strike out, but he will get walked and will get on base. Now for his weekend stats, Fri: 0-4, BB, K, Sat: 2-3, 2RBI, 2BB, Sun: 1-3, RBI, 3BB. Jace has figured it out, and I love to see him succeed. Hopefully, this upward trend continues.
https://sports.yahoo.com/article/texas-m-star-jace-laviolette-144423782.html
Moving on to our first of three pitchers tonight. Jamie Arnold, along with his 2 fellow pitchers, I’ll be talking about had quite dominant starts over the weekend. Jamie went 7IP, gave up 4 hits, 1 run, 2 walks, and had 9 Ks. This start shows how good Jamie has been the whole year, and he’s just going to keep getting better and better. He consistently gets weak contact and keeps the ball on the ground a little over 50% of the time. Arnold keeps impressing me start after start, and in my eyes, he’s the favorite to be the first pitcher off the board in the draft.
Tennessee’s ace Liam Doyle has been having a special year so far, to say the least. Like I said earlier, I didn’t follow College baseball very closely, and I didn’t even know who Liam Doyle was before the season started. He has been one of the most impressive arms I’ve seen all year. I know everyone throws 95+ and is now closer to 100+, but not too many of those are lefties. Liam Doyle is, and I think it shows how effective and dominant he’s been, considering his strikeout numbers are ridiculous. He has 95 Ks through 51 innings pitched. I can’t even wrap my head around that stat, that’s how crazy it is. Now enough of me talking about him, here’s his weekend stats. 8.1IP, 2R, 2BB, 14 Ks, and threw 111 pitches. Absolute dawg on the mound, and I love seeing him pitch. Oh yeah, and by the way, that outing was against Number six ranked Ole Miss….
To cap off the article is Tyler Bremner. He had a pretty solid start for the Gauchos this week. He has also been up there with the 2 pitchers I talked about before, with how impressive everyone has been. I’m looking forward to this draft. There is a TON of talent that we are going to see in the next few years. Here’s how Bremner’s weekend went: 6IP, 4 Runs, 1 walk, and 10 Ks. As of late, I’ve noticed Bremner’s strikeout rate has been up, which is good, but his pitch count has also gone up. He threw 107 pitches through 6 innings. I’m glad to see his pitch count up, but I want his innings to go up as well. I’m excited to see how he continues his great season.
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