BB: SCIAC: Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[Teddy_Ballgame]

OK I just found stats going back to '99 on ncaa.com... And there are few more guys I had forgotten about/didn't realize how good they were.
Most glaring omission:
Luke Smude- .448 BA as freshman then .390, .395, .396. I think I may even recall Coach P saying he's the all time leader in hits for the Hens. 42+ RBI's every year, 19 career HRs... I know he was a first baseman but maybe we can stick him at third on our make believe team.
Rob Ruiz and Matt Rager had some pretty impressive stats too. Thoughts on them? Tough with Huerta, Kang and Escandon I suppose.

Also, I knew that our offense was always pretty damn good and our pitching... struggled to keep up. But looking through the stat books really highlights that. I know alumni field is a hitter's park but it's really tough to find pitchers with good stats/low ERA's.

My lineup (admittedly biased towards guys I played with or saw play):
1. Kang 2B/SS
2. Escanda 2B/SS
3. Cortez C
4. Hedman 1B
5. Turner DH
6. Smude 3B
7. Frederick RF (if you're reading this Nick, I put you in right because there's less to screw up out there)
8. Mandelblatt LF
9. Munzer CF
SP Colvin

Off the bench:
OF Witzansky
OF Gentili
MI Huerta
MI Rager
MI Ruiz
C  Felipe Aguilar or Mike Silva
DH Kula
Hickey (what position did he play?)
P Spike Einseidler
P Adam Gardner
P Jake Bruml
P Travis Rooke-Ley

[Teddy_Ballgame]

I'll get started with a few obvious guys from other teams

Chapman
P Brian Ruah
P Wayde Kitchens
P Jordan Sigman
P Devin Drag (16-0 in 2007?!)
P Scott Akamine
P Jeff Green
P Buddy Klovsted
IF/P Kurt Yacko
are we starting to see a pattern here...?
OF Ryan Prechtl
OF Mike Vass
Of John Semel (purely from his 2009 season)
IF Tristan Phillips
IF Matt Luzar
OF Ryan Hall
Alex Taylor
Eric Albright
Jason Mooneyham

Cal Lutheran
IF David Iden
IF Paul Hartmann
IF Nick Boggan
IF KC Judge
Tom McGee
P Jason Hirsch
P Chase Tigert

La Verne
IF Scott Marcus (2008)
IF Victor Pinado
IF John Michael Hattabaugh
C Mike Surina
OF Jacob Ludvik
P Kevin Knight?
P Scott Lindeen
I'm sure there are a bunch from that national championship team in 1995..

[pomonaalum]

Yeah, I remember Smude.   Great player.  But with Hedman at 1b, didn't have a place for him. 
Hickey played 1b and corner outfield spots...Witzansky was similar, and some 3b as well, I think.

Seem to Remember Rager doing some pitching as well?

[Teddy_Ballgame]

I don't know if Smude ever played 3rd during his career, but we took groundballs at third together during bp before an alumni game so that's enough for me!

Sounds like we could throw Witzansky at 3B too. Kang also got some time in pro ball at third, so you could slide him over and put Huerta or Rager in a middle infield spot. And if you want someone who got more significant innings at 3rd during their time at PP, my best solution would be Campbell.

Switching gears back to the present, congrats to Nick Gentili (OF) and Jake Bruml (UT) for their selections on D3's All-West Region 2nd team. And big ups to Simon Rosenbaum who was not only selected to the 3rd team (UT) but named newcomer of the year.

http://d3baseball.com/awards/all-region/2013/west

Tough break for Erik Munzer, who is overlooked after his first team All-SCIAC selection.
-Alex Schiewe from Redlands and his .455 BA got a much deserved spot on the 3rd team.
-Timothy Williams from George Fox has a little higher average, OBP, Slg % but half as many stolen bases and 3 errors to Munzer's 0. Tough call between the two, but Williams certainly is by no means undeserving.
-Cole Bagbey from Lousiana College gets the last spot. Beats Munzer in runs, OBP, HR's (2 to 0), and stolen bases. Munzer has the edge in BA, RBI's, and significant edge with the errors (Bagbey had 5). I think what gets Bagbey in is the 80 point edge in OBP despite Munzer's 25 point edge in BA.

Other SCIAC selections:
Cal Lu:
First Team- 1B Nick Boggan, UT Jake Petersen, RP Aaron Roth
Second Team- 2B Garrett Smith, SS Trevor Koons, 3B Nicho Dellavalle

Redlands:
Second Team- C Sean McMillan
Third Team- SS Jordan Dresner, Schiewe

Whittier:
Third Team- Julian Barzilli

Notably absent (First team All-SCIAC):
Redlands 2B Jason Henning .386/.439/.513, 38 Runs, 27 RBI, 11 SB
Occidental SS Logan Allen .342/.412/.484, 34 Runs, 27 RBI, 14 SB
Occidental P Scott Hong 5-1, 1.39 ERA, 4 Saves, 58.1 IP, 49 K, 17 BB, .200 BAA (Not to mention .336 BA, .451 OBP, 36 Runs, 3HR's, and 33 SB as a hitter)
La Verne P Kevin Knight 6-3, 1.94 ERA, 83.1 IP, 60 K, 18 BB, .234 BAA

I think Hong and Knight might have a gripe for 3rd team (all the 1st and 2nd team guys had great numbers and were on teams that made regionals). But it is tough to argue against Copeland from LeTourneau (8-2, 1.53 ERA, 9 CG's), Webster from Louisiana College (10-2, 1.77 ERA, 11 CG's, 4 SO's), and Ullman from Concordia Austin (6-4, 1.52 ERA, .222 BAA).

Personally, I'd drop Ullman for Hong. The arguments go both ways and Ullman had almost 20 more innings, but Hong played on a better team that had no other representation on the All West region teams.

The other argument for Hong would be in Rosenbaum's spot. Rosenbaum had a phenomenal year and is totally deserving, but did miss half the season. I do like the nod to Rosenbaum, though, who may have been 1st team All West Region and 1st Team All-American if he continued at the pace he was on, plus played for a team that made regionals.

[CrashDavisD3]

I don't know if Smude ever played 3rd during his career, but we took groundballs at third together during bp before an alumni game so that's enough for me!

Sounds like we could throw Witzansky at 3B too. Kang also got some time in pro ball at third, so you could slide him over and put Huerta or Rager in a middle infield spot. And if you want someone who got more significant innings at 3rd during their time at PP, my best solution would be Campbell.

Switching gears back to the present, congrats to Nick Gentili (OF) and Jake Bruml (UT) for their selections on D3's All-West Region 2nd team. And big ups to Simon Rosenbaum who was not only selected to the 3rd team (UT) but named newcomer of the year.

http://d3baseball.com/awards/all-region/2013/west

Tough break for Erik Munzer, who is overlooked after his first team All-SCIAC selection.
-Alex Schiewe from Redlands and his .455 BA got a much deserved spot on the 3rd team.
-Timothy Williams from George Fox has a little higher average, OBP, Slg % but half as many stolen bases and 3 errors to Munzer's 0. Tough call between the two, but Williams certainly is by no means undeserving.
-Cole Bagbey from Lousiana College gets the last spot. Beats Munzer in runs, OBP, HR's (2 to 0), and stolen bases. Munzer has the edge in BA, RBI's, and significant edge with the errors (Bagbey had 5). I think what gets Bagbey in is the 80 point edge in OBP despite Munzer's 25 point edge in BA.

Other SCIAC selections:
Cal Lu:
First Team- 1B Nick Boggan, UT Jake Petersen, RP Aaron Roth
Second Team- 2B Garrett Smith, SS Trevor Koons, 3B Nicho Dellavalle

Redlands:
Second Team- C Sean McMillan
Third Team- SS Jordan Dresner, Schiewe

Whittier:
Third Team- Julian Barzilli

Notably absent (First team All-SCIAC):
Redlands 2B Jason Henning .386/.439/.513, 38 Runs, 27 RBI, 11 SB
Occidental SS Logan Allen .342/.412/.484, 34 Runs, 27 RBI, 14 SB
Occidental P Scott Hong 5-1, 1.39 ERA, 4 Saves, 58.1 IP, 49 K, 17 BB, .200 BAA (Not to mention .336 BA, .451 OBP, 36 Runs, 3HR's, and 33 SB as a hitter)
La Verne P Kevin Knight 6-3, 1.94 ERA, 83.1 IP, 60 K, 18 BB, .234 BAA

I think Hong and Knight might have a gripe for 3rd team (all the 1st and 2nd team guys had great numbers and were on teams that made regionals). But it is tough to argue against Copeland from LeTourneau (8-2, 1.53 ERA, 9 CG's), Webster from Louisiana College (10-2, 1.77 ERA, 11 CG's, 4 SO's), and Ullman from Concordia Austin (6-4, 1.52 ERA, .222 BAA).

Personally, I'd drop Ullman for Hong. The arguments go both ways and Ullman had almost 20 more innings, but Hong played on a better team that had no other representation on the All West region teams.

The other argument for Hong would be in Rosenbaum's spot. Rosenbaum had a phenomenal year and is totally deserving, but did miss half the season. I do like the nod to Rosenbaum, though, who may have been 1st team All West Region and 1st Team All-American if he continued at the pace he was on, plus played for a team that made regionals.

I am a big advocate to let the computers crunch the numbers....

[Teddy_Ballgame]

I am a big advocate to let the computers crunch the numbers....

I'm not. I think there are a lot of things that wouldn't show up in a statistical analysis. I also think that no matter what formula/algorithm/program was used, you would have people disagreeing with how certain things were weighted. And while I use some statistics to try and get my point across, probably too much so, I wish I had more real observation and qualitative evidence to inject into the conversation. As Vin Scully said, "Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination."

But Crash, speaking of having qualitative evidence and observation to go off, are there any particular Chapman players you would add or subtract from my initial little list for an all-time Chapman team?

[Lets Play Two]

Chapman has had so many quality players over the years, making it extremely difficult to narrow down the list.  I would give consideration to Brian Sanders - SS, Tyler Dean - OF, Tony Serna - C, Adam Olow - OF, Jairo Ochoa  - RHP and Mike Carey - RHP.  Aaron Rifkin had one of the best single seasons before moving on to Cal State Fullerton.

[Teddy_Ballgame]

Congratulations to Pomona-Pitzer Outfielder Erik Munzer for his selection to the Rawling's Gold Glove Team! His outstanding speed and athletic ability gave him a ton of range in the outfield, particularly in PP's deep left center gap. Well-earned Mr. Munzer, who was also an all-region defender in soccer.

Below is the link to the ABCA All-America teams, with the Gold Glove Team at the end:
http://www.clusports.com/stats/baseball/2013/2013ABCARawlingsAA.pdf

SCIAC players represented on All-American teams:

CLU- Jake Petersen First Team Utility
CLU- Nick Boggan Second Team 1B
CLU- Aaron Roth Second Team P

Congrats to those Kingsmen, who all had pretty spectacular years.

[D O.C.]

Yeah, congrats to the whole solute team.

You seem to have teams climbing in the right direction, now for that turbo-charge.

(of course, the wheels would have to come off your northern friends)

[RFB]

http://www.goredlands.com/sports/bsb/2012-13/releases/20130627vyc7lp

Scott Laverty has accepted the HC position at Chapman. Tough loss for Redlands and a great hire for Chapman. Scott did a great job building the baseball program and is highly thought of in the Redlands athletic family. Best of luck to him!

[Jim Dixon]

http://www.goredlands.com/sports/bsb/2012-13/releases/20130627vyc7lp

Scott Laverty has accepted the HC position at Chapman. Tough loss for Redlands and a great hire for Chapman. Scott did a great job building the baseball program and is highly thought of in the Redlands athletic family. Best of luck to him!

If you cannot beat them join them.  Redlands won the series from Chapman this year.

[Gray Fox]

Less smog and closer to Disneyland.

[ChapFan]

Well I can say that I am extremely happy with this pick of Coach Laverty. The man knows how to recruit SoCal and with CU as the school he is recruiting for he is going to have a much easier time getting Student/Athletes. Had it not been for Redlands not offering the major my son wanted it was very possible that he would have been playing for Laverty at Redlands. Also on the plus side for the Junior and Seniors is that Laverty somewhat knows them and the transition for the veteran players to a new coach may be a bit easier.

[dahlby]

Yep, great hire. It will be interesting how all the youngsters that Tom T recruited develop. Coach T recruited well and has left some real talent behind. With such a young team, last season was not
the best for CU. With such a reputable new coach, recruiting should continue as in the past.

[CrashDavisD3]

Yep, great hire. It will be interesting how all the youngsters that Tom T recruited develop. Coach T recruited well and has left some real talent behind. With such a young team, last season was not
the best for CU. With such a reputable new coach, recruiting should continue as in the past.

Only 1 senior on 2013 roster. Pitching coach Dave Edwards is returning per the press release.