BB: CCIW: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[Caz Bombers]

is this Reinhardt kid on the radar for the draft next month? If fans are allowed in your part of the world, anybody seen MLB scouts at the ballpark?

[npbaseball40]

is this Reinhardt kid on the radar for the draft next month? If fans are allowed in your part of the world, anybody seen MLB scouts at the ballpark?

I cannot get into specifics, but he's very much on the radar for the draft.

With COVID protocol in IL, many scouts are utilizing video and analytical data (exit velocity, projected distance, etc.) to evaluate potential draftees. Would be great to see Reinhardt picked up.

[Gregory Sager]

https://www.facebook.com/761062707237795/videos/289947942668020

[mr_b]

https://www.facebook.com/761062707237795/videos/289947942668020

Nice work by NPU Athletics for putting together this montage!

[npbaseball40]

Congrats to Jake Reinhardt on being named one of the National Shortstops of the Week by D3baseball.com. The article also lumped in Jake's stats from the week prior.

[Gregory Sager]

Jake Reinhardt currently leads D3 in total bases with 125. There's quite a gap between him and the #2 player in that category, Austin Denlinger of York (PA), who has 114.

Reinhardt is also fourth in the nation in hits (he has 61; the national leader is Jack Walch of Berry, who has 65), second in the nation in home runs (Denlinger's teammate Jack Barry has 15 to Reinhardt's 14), third in RBI (his 57 trails the 62 amassed by D3 leader Tyler Calvert of Berry), second in triples (his seven trails D3 leader and conference rival Dom Listi of North Central, who has 10), and 12th in runs scored (he has 47; three guys are tied at the top with 54 apiece). I don't see anybody else in D3 whose name is at or near the top of so many counting stats in the offense department.

Percentage stats are another matter; this weird pandemic season is playing havoc with national rankings in percentage stats, because so many teams have played a very limited number of games to date. Just within the Top 25, f'rinstance, Chapman has only played eight games, Babson's played 12, and Wheaton (MA) has played 14, while Reinhardt has been in the lineup for all 33 games that North Park has played thus far. Reinhardt is thus the victim of all kinds of gaudy stats posted by small-sample-size Babe Ruths. Nevertheless, he is ninth in homers per game (the national leader "plays" for Haverford, which has played a grand total of one game thus far this season), tenth in RBI per game (again, the leader is a Haverford guy), 13th in slugging percentage (the leader wears the uniform of -- say it with me, now -- Haverford), and 13th in slugging percentage (take a wild guess which school D3's slugging percentage leader attends). Take out the players from Haverford and other teams that have barely broken a sweat thus far this spring, and Reinhardt also moves way up in batting average, runs per game, etc.

Other Vikings of note statistically are Logan Peters, who is ninth in D3 with seven sacrifice bunts (two players have nine apiece; Millikin's Tommy Shaw leads the CCIW with eight), and Ranko Stevanovic, who is seventh in the nation in doubles with 16 (Jack Surin of Benedictine leads D3 with 19, while Brent Beals of Millikin leads the CCIW with 17).

[Pat Coleman]

Colin Kelly last week: 2 HR, 6 RBI, 3 runs scored
Jake Reinhardt last week: 4 HR, 11 RBI, 9 runs scored

Kelly: 2 games.
Reinhardt: 4 games.

I don't think it makes good policy to hand out awards based on a conference's policy of how many games are played in a weekend, or have it be weather-dependent. Per-game averages are pretty cool that way.

[Gregory Sager]

Colin Kelly last week: 2 HR, 6 RBI, 3 runs scored
Jake Reinhardt last week: 4 HR, 11 RBI, 9 runs scored

Kelly: 2 games.
Reinhardt: 4 games.

I don't think it makes good policy to hand out awards based on a conference's policy of how many games are played in a weekend, or have it be weather-dependent. Per-game averages are pretty cool that way.

But you also run into the problem of small sample size.

[mr_b]

Colin Kelly last week: 2 HR, 6 RBI, 3 runs scored
Jake Reinhardt last week: 4 HR, 11 RBI, 9 runs scored

Kelly: 2 games.
Reinhardt: 4 games.

I don't think it makes good policy to hand out awards based on a conference's policy of how many games are played in a weekend, or have it be weather-dependent. Per-game averages are pretty cool that way.

But you also run into the problem of small sample size.

The challenge of trying to weigh one performance against another over two or three or four games is daunting and is best addressed by recognizing two players at the same position, when appropriate.  This is the case in this week's selections, with two shortstops and two catchers getting the nod.

[Gregory Sager]

Exactly. Why are there two shortstops on this past week's team when there weren't two shortstops on the previous week's team?

Lest this just be interpreted as the partisan grousing of North Park fans, let me state for the record that, like Mr. B, I am convinced that Jim Dixon has a tough task to put together the Team of the Week every seven days throughout the baseball season. More than any other sport covered by d3sports.com, baseball on this level has wildly disparate scheduling (and, thus, wildly disparate outcomes for the players involved), which I think makes his job harder than the parallel work done for football and basketball.

But, given Jake Reinhardt's body of work two weeks ago, and in light of this week's decision to put two shortstops on the Team of the Week, I think that these are fair points that we're raising.

[Gregory Sager]

Congrats to NPU's Jake Reinhardt upon being named Hitter of the Week by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association.

[Pat Coleman]

Exactly. Why are there two shortstops on this past week's team when there weren't two shortstops on the previous week's team?

Lest this just be interpreted as the partisan grousing of North Park fans, let me state for the record that, like Mr. B, I am convinced that Jim Dixon has a tough task to put together the Team of the Week every seven days throughout the baseball season. More than any other sport covered by d3sports.com, baseball on this level has wildly disparate scheduling (and, thus, wildly disparate outcomes for the players involved), which I think makes his job harder than the parallel work done for football and basketball.

But, given Jake Reinhardt's body of work two weeks ago, and in light of this week's decision to put two shortstops on the Team of the Week, I think that these are fair points that we're raising.

I am guessing he only did this because of you guys grousing. I would not have approved of ever putting more than one player on the team at a position, just like a coach cannot start two shortstops at the same time.

Well done, you guys. 

[Gregory Sager]

Exactly. Why are there two shortstops on this past week's team when there weren't two shortstops on the previous week's team?

Lest this just be interpreted as the partisan grousing of North Park fans, let me state for the record that, like Mr. B, I am convinced that Jim Dixon has a tough task to put together the Team of the Week every seven days throughout the baseball season. More than any other sport covered by d3sports.com, baseball on this level has wildly disparate scheduling (and, thus, wildly disparate outcomes for the players involved), which I think makes his job harder than the parallel work done for football and basketball.

But, given Jake Reinhardt's body of work two weeks ago, and in light of this week's decision to put two shortstops on the Team of the Week, I think that these are fair points that we're raising.

I am guessing he only did this because of you guys grousing. I would not have approved of ever putting more than one player on the team at a position, just like a coach cannot start two shortstops at the same time.

Well done, you guys. 

Don't deflect the blame onto us, Pat. If you have a problem with this, take it up with Jim.

Besides, he named two catchers as well as two shortstops. In fact, it's the second time this season that he's named two catchers -- he also did it in Week Eight. Every week he's named four outfielders (as well as a DH, so it's not as though he's only picking nine position players) and a plethora of starting pitchers, and occasionally he'll throw in some extra relief pitchers as well. The "one player on the team at a position" thing does not appear to have been an ironclad rule with Jim before we raised the topic of Jake Reinhardt.

[npbaseball40]

I am guessing he only did this because of you guys grousing. I would not have approved of ever putting more than one player on the team at a position, just like a coach cannot start two shortstops at the same time.

Well done, you guys. 

This is a bizarre hill for you to die on, Pat. If you truly believe you and/or Jim got this right, there's no need to be so defensive.

Fact of the matter is Reinhardt was deserving of the award in two separate weeks. Let's move on now.

[Jim Dixon]

Occasionally I will put two players in the same position.  I have always done this for starting pitcher and reliever more often than any other position.  You can look back and find out that this was the first year I have done this occasionally for positions other than outfielder. 

Exactly. Why are there two shortstops on this past week's team when there weren't two shortstops on the previous week's team?

Lest this just be interpreted as the partisan grousing of North Park fans, let me state for the record that, like Mr. B, I am convinced that Jim Dixon has a tough task to put together the Team of the Week every seven days throughout the baseball season. More than any other sport covered by d3sports.com, baseball on this level has wildly disparate scheduling (and, thus, wildly disparate outcomes for the players involved), which I think makes his job harder than the parallel work done for football and basketball.

But, given Jake Reinhardt's body of work two weeks ago, and in light of this week's decision to put two shortstops on the Team of the Week, I think that these are fair points that we're raising.