Talent is strong enough. Pitching depth, particularly in bullpen, is good. You just can't account for the intangibles this early. And injuries are the equalizer (there's already been one).
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What injury has already occurred? I hadn't heard anything on the injury front...
Boone is injured and unlikely to pitch in 2025. The other two have a LOT of ground to make up but surely will have opportunities. I'd guess Skelding more likely in 2025 just based on number of LHP relievers UK has (Byers, Nove, Hentschel, Smith, Grubb, and the odd men out of the SP roles).
Just based on the roster listed on the UK website there are 48 players listed. Moving forward with the new roster limitations we will have to cut that roster to 35? When will that have to be done? At the end of the semester? I know that SN said that Boone is unlikely to pitch this year so we will have to have a combination of redshirt, injury and "cut" to make it to 35?
The new 34-man roster limit will go into effect for 2025-26 at beginning of fall ball 2025. I think you've probably already seen some future managing of that with unexpected 'de-commitments'.
Believe active roster limit is 40 this spring.
Believe active roster limit is 40 this spring.
Robert Omidi (ON) (26) 3B has committed to UK. Is the the top ranked player in the 26 class from Ontario. He is also the third commit to UK from the 24' Canadian Future Stars game.
Kind of a weak early non-conf schedule.
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Wofford made the Regional though last year.
We are likely still playing the RPI boosting game, that being evidenced by the fact that we're going on the road to play 2 weekend series early in the year.
Still, this one seems a bit weaker than in the past. Last year Lipscomb was 228th in RPI. Even playing them in Nashville isn't going provide us a huge RPI boost if they mimic their 22-34 season from a year ago. Belmont was 169th in RPI. So, it seems to me that playing both of these on the road means that they would be Q3 wins if they are both similar to year ago. They would be Q4 if we played them at home.
Evansville - 52 in RPI last year
Wofford - 50 in RPI last year
So, Wofford at home would be Q1 wins if they mimic what they did a year ago. That would be real solid to have on the resume. Evansville would be Q2.
Hofstra was 151 in RPI a year ago, making those Q4 wins. Also a midweek on the road to EKU.
All that being said, we've had some teams that seemed to surprise us with how strong they were despite not being as good the year before. So, the powers that be might have some good insight and believe that some of these early wins will look a lot better for the RPI in 2025 than they would have in 2024.
The RPI is such a difficult tool to figure out because so much of it is wrapped up in who your opponents play but playing road games certainly helps offset some of that (provided you win). We saw some of that last season when the Samford loss didn't really hurt.
Playing three mid-week road games feels like an attempt at mitigation of risk.
Playing three mid-week road games feels like an attempt at mitigation of risk.
My guess is Sunday starter if he can prove he can handle the workload (re: health) or potentially high-leverage reliever, a la Moore in 2023 (2-4 inning stints).
Yeah my thoughts too.
Why not do a 3 game series with a team like East Carolina or Houston Baptist.
I bet after last season, if we have another strong showing this year we'll find ourselves with some of those early season tournament invites in the coming years.
