2015 Season: Right Handed Pitchers

This group is led by the bearded wonder. Senior Trevor Fitts, 6-2 223 will hold down the closers role in 2015. Vast experience from Fitts. He is a tremendous leader also. Junior redshirt Preston Brown had a great fall. Expect him to be an SEC starter on the weekends. Let's hope he is injury free in 2015. Junior Myles Gentry, 6-0 190, a side arm reliever will come out of the pen and put any fires out. Great movement on his pitches. Redshirt sophomore Paul Young, 6-2 205 is the ace in the hole this year. He is coming off surgery from last spring. Drafted by the Indians coming out of junior college, I had hoped he would pitch last year and be dominating. I hope he starts slow to get in game shape and comes on late in May and June and give us that mid-90's heater we need out of the bullpen. I see him being a major contributor in 2016. A trio of superb true sophomores will pitch a lot in 2015. Austin Sexton, 6-2 180 from Alabama, is still in the hunt for a weekend spot. He had a nice summer and fall. Big and tall, Dakota Hudson, 6-5, 207 has tons of ability. A non-arm injury set him back in the fall. I would love for him to dominate and take the Friday night starter role. We shall see what the early spring holds for him. Another huge player is Zac Houston, 6-6 234 from Mississippi. He is slated for reliever duty in 2015. Maybe a set up role for him. He throws in the mid-90's. JC transfer sophomore Logan Elliot, 6-1 175, another side armer, will vie for relief duty. Freshmen redshirts, Jacob Billingsley, 6-1 178 and Levi Mintz, 6-3 190 are still competing for reliever roles. A trio of true freshmen, led by phenom Jesse McCord, 6-2 185 who by all accounts will be a major contributor to the staff. He may be a weekend starter as a freshman. No one can hit his pitches will regularity. Aaron Dominguez, 6-1 190 from California is set to compete for reliever duty. A very tough kid on the mound. Dual player, Cole Gordon, 6-6 240 may get a few innings in relief. He had surgery in the last few months so it might be 2016 before he will make a pitching impact.