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Lance Roffers

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D1Baseball.com has their ACC preview out and it's not kind to our Canes.

Picking Miami to finish 14th in the ACC and miss the tournament. Apparently by a large margin, as they have 10 teams from the ACC making it in.

Want an overview of the problems as they see it? Talent.

The 2025 MLB Draft has 75 players listed. In the top-50 of draft prospects in the ACC, Miami has one (Griffin Hugus at #38). Our second player listed isn't until #72 (Max Galvin) and #75 (Brian Walters).

The 2026 MLB Draft has 50 players listed. Of course, Cuvet is listed highly (#4), but after that it is not until Nick Robert for the next one (#28) and those are the only two.

Impact freshmen there are 50 players listed and Miami has #14 Michael Torres and #33 Michael Fernandez.

Age and experience can win in college baseball, but the Canes simply lack overall talent at the moment.

For comparison' sake:

2025-

FSU - 10
Wake- 7
Virginia- 10

Coach Arteaga has to stock this roster with more physical talent.
 
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I'm not sure how they can assess a team with 2 returning guys in the line-up. I'm not overly optimistic, but spoke to an MLB Scout last night who is going to the Light tomorrow night. He thinks our bats will be better - mentioned Cuvet, Galvin, Hudson, and Ogden specifically. The big questions mark is going to be the pitching (no surprise). He thinks we won't know for a few weeks as to how Miami will be.

As an aside, he thinks Sully is going to have his hands full in Gainesville this year fwiw. Thinks they are taking an even bigger step back than people expected.
 
As much as I am excited, it really is a wait and see deal. I do think this team has taken a massive step forward in every department. But with essentially a completely new team, it means nothing until they cross that white line against a real top team.
 
I’m most intrigued to see Cuvets progress. This will be most telling.

This is college baseball. Soph/jr superstars become impossible outs. Esp when hitting in key situations.

How did this staff squeeze even more out of him.

Or do we see the dreaded soph slump.

I’m down on this roster. But if Cuvet gets some decent production around him and he progresses like one would hope we might sneak into the post season.
 
I don't think people appreciate how guys like Galvin and Marsh can rake the ball. If Cuvet steps up, Galvin hits like he did in the Northwoods League, and Marsh hits the way he has been, this offense could be very, very good. And don't sleep on Dorian's bat. All that said, we need solid pitching if we are going to go .500 in the ACC. And to me, that is the big questions mark.

I'm absolutely not drinking Kool-Aid, particularly given my thoughts on the coaching staff. But the production of these hitters (again, not facing ACC pitching yet), is being underestimated.

Now watch me eat crow when we get blanked by Niagra in the opener. SMH
 
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Canesfreak said:
I don't think people appreciate how guys like Galvin and Marsh can rake the ball. If Cuvet steps up, Galvin hits like he did in the Northwoods League, and Marsh hits the way he has been, this offense could be very, very good. And don't sleep on Dorian's bat. All that said, we need solid pitching if we are going to go .500 in the ACC. And to me, that is the big questions mark.

I'm absolutely not drinking Kool-Aid, particularly given my thoughts on the coaching staff. But the production of these hitters (again, not facing ACC pitching yet), is being underestimated.

Not watch me eat crow when we get blanked by Niagra in the opener. SMH
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Yeah I'm excited about the offense but the pitching who knows. 14th in the league though that is brutal
 
HurricanePhilly said:
I’m most intrigued to see Cuvets progress. This will be most telling.

This is college baseball. Soph/jr superstars become impossible outs. Esp when hitting in key situations.

How did this staff squeeze even more out of him.

Or do we see the dreaded soph slump.

I’m down on this roster. But if Cuvet gets some decent production around him and he progresses like one would hope we might sneak into the post season.
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I'm confident with the guys around Cuvet, which means pitchers will have to think twice before trying to pitch around him. Because of that, I think he will at least have similar production outputs to last year.
 
ErickMarreroU said:
not to talk **** on D1 baseball but…. They didn’t show up to one practice all fall, my question is where are they getting this info. In my opinion it’s coming straight from their ***
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I prefer when they doubt Miami. They predicted Toral would be ACC freshman of the year and he totally flopped.
 
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There are question marks on defense. Multiple guys playing off their natural positions. Catcher and CF look great but they both have bat concerns.
 
ErickMarreroU said:
not to talk **** on D1 baseball but…. They didn’t show up to one practice all fall, my question is where are they getting this info. In my opinion it’s coming straight from their ***
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I actually believe we will make the tournament, but D1 gets their info from the coaches themselves. They talk to every team and their coaching staff, especially in the big conferences.

It's why their write-ups are always about players "showing improvement" or "this new player has ___ tools" etc.

Their pause comes from the fact most of the transfers re mid-major transfers and in many cases are players without the physical talent to be high draft picks and/or didn't have great success at their last stops.

The draft portion of things comes directly from scouts, and they place a lot of emphasis on tools and returning production. Hard to blame them for that.

Heck, they just had Arteaga on their podcast, we know for a fact they talked to him for that reason alone.
 
Lance Roffers said:
I actually believe we will make the tournament, but D1 gets their info from the coaches themselves. They talk to every team and their coaching staff, especially in the big conferences.

It's why their write-ups are always about players "showing improvement" or "this new player has ___ tools" etc.

Their pause comes from the fact most of the transfers re mid-major transfers and in many cases are players without the physical talent to be high draft picks and/or didn't have great success at their last stops.

The draft portion of things comes directly from scouts, and they place a lot of emphasis on tools and returning production. Hard to blame them for that.

Heck, they just had Arteaga on their podcast, we know for a fact they talked to him for that reason alone.
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check out the videos im posting in the day 1 of spring forum. I would love your thoughts on what you see
 
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