2015 Season: Outfielders

Center

This should be a two headed monster. Both players are in there 3rd year of college baseball. Sophomore redshirt Jacob Robson, 5-10 175 from Canada. He started slow in 2014 then got hurt and was redshirted. He played well in the summer league and continued that surge in the fall. Bats left. He really put the ball in play and pressured the defense, on the base paths too during fall scrimmages. Junior Michael Smith, 5-10 170 comes from a JC in Tennessee. He is really fast. He bats right. Did not make an error in the OF during his JC career and stole over 20 bases each year. Both these guys are real fast. I can see a platoon situation here.

Corner

These two positions will a mix and match situation. Who bats left or right? Who will bat DH when not in the OF? Sophomore phenom Reid Humphreys, 6-2 210 played his first OF duty in the fall and did well. Coaches have to find a spot for him to bat. So for a lot of the games he will be playing in left. He bats right and will hit in the middle of the lineup, probably at clean up. Sophomore redshirt Cody Brown, 5-10 185 will probably play more in right. He is a gamer. He bats left. Senior Jake Vickerson, 5-9 184 is another one to put in either spot. John Cohen redshirted two freshmen last year that will have an offensive impact this year. Super athlete Brent Rooker, 6-4 210 can really run and hit. He bats right and I see him as a DH also. The youngest of the bunch is Floridian Joey Swinarski, 6-2 190. He skipped his senior year in HS last year, so in essence he is a true freshman. He came on late in the fall offensively. He will only get better.

We have 7 OF's and three bat left and 4 bat right. You will see platoon situations among them including the DH spot. This now has become a bright spot and a deep position.