I'm quite sure in retrospect almost all D1 programs would have taken him

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Jun 20, 2024
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donnerstag All-American

I'm quite sure in retrospect almost all D1 programs would have taken him

A major part of recruiting is assessing potential upside.

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Anyone know of a connection between Detroit Tigers SP Tarik Skubal and BYU?

JJCoug

Jun 19, 11:21am

He is LDS.

molodyets

Jun 19, 11:34am

This is an anecdotal example of why I'm not on team "it's too cold to recruit the better players to BYU"

DJROSS

Jun 19, 11:53am

He’s from Kingman AZ and had one D1 offer. This isn’t a huge recruiting miss.

molodyets

Jun 19, 11:56am

I argue that while it can be beneficial to focus on players with many offers as a sign of quality, it is

DJROSS

Jun 19, 12:05pm

Or maybe he had a spurt and got significantly better and Seattle U got lucky

molodyets

Jun 19, 12:08pm

Or maybe this is an anecdotal example as I expressed earlier.

DJROSS

Jun 19, 12:12pm

Well if it is a BYU miss, it is a miss by every other school in D1 college baseball...

Jun 20, 5:29am

I hate the argument that it wasn’t a miss when he was actually elite

donnerstag

Jun 19, 12:39pm

Fair enough, but it was a miss for hundreds of other programs too.

Jun 19, 12:45pm

True, but BYU was his dream offer

donnerstag

Jun 19, 1:25pm

Sorry, this is not Make-a-Wish, it's D1 baseball.

Conan

Jun 20, 10:34am

You’re saying Skubal was a make a wish candidate?

donnerstag

Jun 20, 10:41am

He was so elite 350+ college coaches also passed on him.

molodyets

Jun 19, 1:39pm

It’s highly probable that most teams don’t scout that area

donnerstag

Jun 19, 1:48pm

He also played for a tiny school.

Jun 19, 1:51pm

Of course I would love to have coaches that can perfectly project every player’s

molodyets

Jun 19, 2:02pm

There are common traits in those players that exceed their recruiting profile

donnerstag

Jun 19, 2:10pm

Can you tell me about where it was so I can watch it? Which inning? Or pregame?

Jun 19, 12:14pm

Looks like the 3rd inning maybe? Braves telecast.

JJCoug

Jun 19, 12:45pm

Skubal family is LDS, in Kingman, AZ. Served in his ward

BYUcrew818

Jun 19, 2:18pm

He threw T max 83 mph the summer after his junior year. No D1 program missed on

Uno Doctoro

Jun 19, 10:10pm

I'm quite sure in retrospect almost all D1 programs would have taken him

donnerstag

Jun 20, 4:24am

Problem is that baseball recruiting today is almost always based upon measurable

Uno Doctoro

Jun 20, 8:49am

That shouldn’t be the end of the analysis

donnerstag

Jun 20, 9:17am

No it’s not. How many kids that throw 83 max end up being good?

molodyets

Jun 20, 9:19am

We all know that most 17 year olds need to fill out

donnerstag

Jun 20, 9:55am

Seattle took him because they took what they could get. I doubt their coaches

molodyets

Jun 20, 10:22am

There was a very large gap of he was as a prospect and his MLB peak self

donnerstag

Jun 20, 10:39am

So you say this and then 2 minutes later say he was an elite prospect?

molodyets

Jun 20, 12:20pm

Based on his ceiling, he was an elite prospect

donnerstag

Jun 20, 12:56pm

The Lord works in mysterious ways.

Defrueblue

Jun 21, 3:34pm

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