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Posted: 11/14/2012 11:25 PM
Link from official site, http://www.ohiobobcats.com/sports/m-basebl/spec-rel/11141...        

This looks like a really good class.
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Posted: 11/14/2012 11:49 PM
Baseball is the hardest sport to truly project, especially with pitchers. I'm not calling out 18-22 year olds by name, but we've had several top 5 and top 10 pitchers in the state come out of high school and do next to nothing for Ohio. Mixture of coaching, injuries, "college" and just being overrated plays into that. It looks good on paper with all these guys dominating their local HS leagues, but it's really hard to tell how good or bad the class is without more unified rating systems like football and basketball.
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Posted: 11/14/2012 11:57 PM
Donuts wrote:expand_more
Baseball is the hardest sport to truly project, especially with pitchers. I'm not calling out 18-22 year olds by name, but we've had several top 5 and top 10 pitchers in the state come out of high school and do next to nothing for Ohio. Mixture of coaching, injuries, "college" and just being overrated plays into that. It looks good on paper with all these guys dominating their local HS leagues, but it's really hard to tell how good or bad the class is without more unified rating systems like football and basketball.


I don't place much confidence in rating systems, but I do put confidence in how our staff rates them.  They saw in person each one play numerous times and they rated them high, otherwise they would not have offered them.
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Posted: 11/15/2012 3:26 PM
Really nice to see a very broad recruiting spectrum.  IThere is good talent in Ohio and PA, but we should be able to beat just about every MAC school in recruiting with our facilities, athletic personnel, and campus life.  Been to a lot of colleges in the past years and I may be partial, but Ohio University is still extremely hard to beat in my opinion.  Hats off to the coaching staff for putting in the work to recruit a wide range of locations.
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Posted: 11/15/2012 4:51 PM
6-4-3 wrote:expand_more
I don't place much confidence in rating systems, but I do put confidence in how our staff rates them.  They saw in person each one play numerous times and they rated them high, otherwise they would not have offered them.


LOL, well yes, it's fair to assume they are high on them if they offered the players. All I'm saying is every D1 baseball player looks great in HS. Arms are extremely hard to project, which is why I'm not sure how crazy I am about players already being labeled as a MAC starter or reliever. Let's just get them on campus and see how things work out.
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Posted: 11/15/2012 5:07 PM
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Posted: 11/17/2012 12:16 AM
6-4-3 wrote:expand_more
I don't place much confidence in rating systems, but I do put confidence in how our staff rates them.


Huh?

"I don't always like to use rating systems, but when I do, I prefer to use ratings systems"

No matter who's doing the rating, baseball players are tough to gauge. Perhaps this staff has found the secret, but until we see the results....the jury's still out.

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Posted: 11/17/2012 9:40 AM
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I don't place much confidence in rating systems, but I do put confidence in how our staff rates them.


Huh?

"I don't always like to use rating systems, but when I do, I prefer to use ratings systems"

No matter who's doing the rating, baseball players are tough to gauge. Perhaps this staff has found the secret, but until we see the results....the jury's still out.


Huh? Yourself.  My intent was that I trust the way our coaches rate the kids they recruited not some outside rating service.  Seeing how things play out is true in all college sports.  The jury is always out.  As a side note, if you have a staff the can not project the type of player that will fit into their system and be productive during the recruiting process, you probably have the wrong staff.  I don't think we have the wrong staff.
Last Edited: 11/17/2012 9:49:51 AM by 6-4-3
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Posted: 11/30/2012 9:44 AM
No more Western PA recruits?  

And we got a couple kids from the Greater Cincinnati Area (Fairfield, Edgewood).

Except for a few, we never got kids from this area.


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