Ncaa Baseball
Buster Posey believes there is a lot for fans to like about the Florida State baseball team — when he and his teammates finally get to play.
The season had already been pushed back three weeks because of the NCAA’s new compact schedule when bad weather postponed Friday’s game against Duquesne.
Today’s first game of a doubleheader will make for the latest season opener during the 29-year Mike Martin era. Elih Villanueva will be on the mound at noon today for the Seminoles.
The second game will take place about 30-45 minutes following the end of the first game at Dick Howser Stadium. Both games will be nine innings.
“Starting three weeks later and then this was just a tease today,” said Posey, the preseason All-American catcher after the game was finally postponed two hours after it was scheduled to begin. “We’re ready to go. This team has a very good chemistry and we’ve got a bunch of hard workers. We’re very excited to get started.
“A lot of times you hear people say 1 through 9 is solid but I don’t think that is a far stretch at all. And the pitchers are solid and the defense as well.”
FSU was one of five ACC teams to have games postponed Friday. Weather has been a concern for coaches such as Martin who opposed the compact schedule. It means FSU must play eight five-game weeks plus a busy start to the season.
“Now you’re looking at eight games in 10 days,” Martin said of an opening schedule that includes an exhibition game against the Philadelphia Phillies and a four-game series with Auburn next week. “It’s a challenging thing.”
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If one arm gets tired, he can just switch to the other to complete the game. ;P
I love this kinda thing, just like the lack of lefty catchers, or Jim Abbot (1-handed pitcher) or that club-foot football kicker who booted a 70 yarder or something. I have a feeling that if he was good and got signed to a pro contract, one of two things would happen:A) He is berated by his coaches and forced to concentrate on using his right, so he can maximize the ability of that armor B) He is allowed to do so, but will remain in the minors as a crowd-drawing curiosity for quite some time.
Actually, there was a guy about 15 years ago when I was in college that was a switch pitcher. Not for my school, but at another. The rule back then was that he couldn’t switch arms during a game, which I felt was wrong cause a hitter could switch which side of the plate they were going to hit from, even during the same at-bat.
Specialist? If he can throw with either hand wouldn’t that make him a generalist?
He’s got to have a dominant arm, it seems more of a novelty than anything. Once (if) he hits the majors he’d be better off to focus on developing one arm, not trying to focus on both. What he’s able to do can’t be compared to switch hitting because there are more exact motor skills used in pitching vs the hand eye coordination used in hitting.
I’m sure it’s cool to be ambidextrous, but wouldn’t you miss the ” The Stranger” hand.
this guy can make alot of $$$ if he can master that
Didn’t Harvard have a switch pitcher years ago?
I played a guy in high school that could pitch both ways. It was really weird!