It's a small freshman class this year, at least in terms of the top-tier recruits, probably because we have a fairly young team.
The Weeklys have had to scramble a bit for pitching because, as strong as they are at recruiting, they somehow forgot to recruit pitchers in both 2014 and 2015! What they were thinking, I have no idea--but in 2015 we were pitching Gaffin, who was mainly an outfielder who thankfully turned out to be a wonderful sport pitcher, and Tarrango, whose career did not pan out at first or pitcher, and Gabriel. They brought in Aucoin from JC, and she didn't pan out as a pitcher (but did reasonably well at first). I'm not sure I even saw her pitch. Last year they brought in two top pitching prospects but one of them, Bush, was not ready for prime time. Your going to have holes occasionally because everybody is taking commitments from kids in the 8th/9th grade and some of them are simply do not pan out. You can over-recruit, and that happens, but then you risk transferring. It's tough to manage.
I think with Weimer the coaches are wisely trying to shore up right-side hitting. Lockman, a big-time right-handed prospect, did a fine job catching last year but really struggled at the plate--hitting under 200. You have to have more than one good right-hand bat (Geer). And two of the best freshman prospects are left-handed hitters. We should be hard on right-handed pitchers but got beat by a left-hander from Arizona.
