BB: General New England Discussion

[Hobbesy]

One thing that could be overlooked is that they might have gotten outside a lot earlier than most because they are farther south and/or they have developed an offseason pitching program that allows kids to come into spring ball ready to go.

I can't say I agree with the idea but it is quite scary to think they might have three or four kids that can go the distance on any given day.  Still need to develop a bullpen though!

As for Eastern, this is what usually happens early on in the season.  Most pitchers have a pitch limit and/or an inning limit in the early goings.  Later in the season and probably even in his next start Schult would be out there on the hill for the next two or three innings.  As we saw yesterday, the biggest problem ECSU will have this year is their pitching.  They need to develop a quality relief corps that can come in and maintain leads.  You can't, even at this point in the season, blow a lead against a quality opponent.  A good lesson to learn early on.

[Hobbesy]

Started a new segment on my blog called "New England's Finest."  I am going to go position by position and look at the best players at each position in the region.

I started today with the first basemen.  I know I probably missed some but that's where you guys can help out and start a good discussion!

http://ned3baseball.wordpress.com/

[Stump]

Started a new segment on my blog called "New England's Finest."  I am going to go position by position and look at the best players at each position in the region.

I started today with the first basemen.  I know I probably missed some but that's where you guys can help out and start a good discussion!

http://ned3baseball.wordpress.com/

Hobbesy:
Great idea and great start.  Nice to have this available to start some discussions. Looking forward to further installments.


To add my 2 cents to the complete game discusion.  I think kids should be throwing more in general but February seems a little early to be stretched out enough to go complete., especially playing in NJ.  That must be some off season throwing program.

[Hobbesy]

Stump-

Thank you!

Second installment is complete and posted on the site!

http://ned3baseball.wordpress.com/

[GBearsAlum15]

Today marked opening day for a few teams, it's good to be back. The Farmingdale tournament started today with two of the stronger teams in New England, WNEC and Keene St in action. WNEC took care of business in the first game of the day, taking down host Farmingdale St. 9-2 behind a solid pitching performance from Matt Rogers. Fatse, Rubino, and Taylor led the way offensively in an otherwise quiet day for the bats because of walks and errors. As for Keene St, they are about to close out St. Joseph's (LI), as they are up 6-0 in the 9th. Crutcher and Pelkey are putting together a dominant pitching performance, along with the usual offensive firepower from Doyon and Co. Is this kid Crutcher a transfer? (I'm sure you KSC fans can tell me) If Keene St can have consistent pitching then they can be a very dangerous team all year. These two teams meet on Sunday to finish up the weekend tournament. It should be a solid game and a great opportunity for one of these two teams to get an early quality regional win. What are everyone's thoughts about WNEC and Keene St and what do you think will happen on Sunday?

[Wally]

Crutcher is from Londenderry NH. Transfered to KSC from SNHU. Strange thing is, I don't remember him pitching in high school? Nice start for the Owls. Great find for Coaches Howe and Testo.

[Hobbesy]

Two great pitching performances from WNEC and Keene St.!

Dare I say that New England baseball is finally here!? The unofficial opening weekend!

http://ned3baseball.wordpress.com/

[zoneit]

WNEC and Eastern with solid wins today, WNEC goes to 2-0. Good early season matchup Sunday, Keene versus WNEC, Keene dropped one today to fall to 1-1.

Castleton drops third in a row to the Apprentice School, never heard of them before (from Virginia) but they must be good. Drops them to 0-7, 
also will be sitting on that for a couple of weeks at least, not scheduled to go again until March 20. Taking a chance playing southern schools who obviously have an advantage in the early going, don`t see too many northern teams doing that any more. Possibly their vacation schedule  limited their options .

Most teams are fortunate to have very little time between the end of their southern trip and the start of the northern season. However, will all the snow mess up the early New England schedule? It generally seems like things clear up in time, but I know there have been exceptions to that, and unfortunately this may be one of those years. Hopefully not.

[zoneit]

Wesleyan off to a great start, 4-0, and I am sure that they will be formidable. But to keep it in perspective, their competition thus far couldn`t be much worse. The two teams, Southern Vermont and Presentation, are a combined 0-11. Ignoring the games against Wesleyan, those two teams have been outscored by a total of 81-24.
Top pitcher Yarusi hasn`t thrown yet, my guess is they are holding him back for a tougher opponent. If he doesn`t go today, though, have to ask why not.

[Hobbesy]

zoneit-

They did the same thing last year...started 9-0 against subpar competition and then dropped their next five games to teams that are pretty good.

Yarusi has pitched...2 ip 5 hits 6 runs 1 er 1 bb 1 so against Southern Vermont in the 16-13 victory

Not the best start to the season for him

[Tarheel0550]

I hope they didnt hold him just for Southern Vermont ha ha. SVC will be lucky to win 5 games this year.Team ba .225 record 0-7 just a terrible team.The only bright spot they had the last two years was thier catcher E Wells and must be he saw the light because he transferred to Oneonta St.

[zoneit]

Hobbsey, you are the man, love your website. Also nice that the "national" D3.com website is vastly improved and really good this year as well.

We may be getting different info - box score on the Wesleyan website gives that line to Dan Thomsen, not Yarusi. By the way, their hitting stats so far are sick, .472 team average, 8 regulars hitting .455 or better. But of 67 hits, only four home runs, three by Sonnenfeld who could probably hit one out with a shovel. So, strange as it may sound, it may have been worse if this was 2010.   

[wordsmith]

zoneit-

They did the same thing last year...started 9-0 against subpar competition and then dropped their next five games to teams that are pretty good.

Yarusi has pitched...2 ip 5 hits 6 runs 1 er 1 bb 1 so against Southern Vermont in the 16-13 victory

Not the best start to the season for him

Ahh Wesleyan...I always figured the ball teams ran out of steam, as it were, because of what they call WestCo...otherwise known as the Naked Dorm! Where clothing in this co-ed dorm is optional......

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/18/nyregion/naked-dorm-that-wasn-t-in-the-brochure.html

[Hobbesy]

Zoneit-

I found that line in the boxscore on the SVC website so I can imagine that it possibly could have been a mistake.  I was really surprised to see him with that kind of outing so you're information is probably right.

And thanks, I'm glad I am able to contribute something with the website!

[KSCfan]

Colby Sawyer off to a hot start at 4-1 along with Wesleyan at 4-0

The rest of New England heads south here pretty quick.  Looking forward to blowing off work and watching live stats online!