Post by wilkyisdashiznit on May 25, 2021 14:49:05 GMT -8
The other famous Yeskie recruit, who initially inked with Oregon State before following Yeskie to Arizona? Andrew Susac's younger brother, Daniel Susac, who has been catching and hitting 4th/5th all year, who leads the Pac-12 in hits and RBIs and is second in home runs and who has a major league arm.
Maybe, two years later, Arizona does have more talent. And maybe a large reason for that is Nate Yeskie!
2020. 4
2019 11
2018: 3
2017: 23
2016: 4
2015: 20
Arizona nearly always has far higher ranked, incoming talent than Oregon State. As does UCLA. As does Oregon. As does ASU. As does Stanford. As does USC(recently upward again)
Most of the teams the Beavers play have much higher rate talent than the Beavers. The current Beaver team has primarily the talent from the period when Yeskie had taken over the recruiting coordinator role from Bailey. Bailey's last classes as the primary recruiter were very good, and the loss of athletes when Yeskie moved did hurt. I like the incoming talent to OSU. But if you are saying that Yeskie has greatly incerased Arizona's talent over their normal inflow (ranking based which in itself is obviously not the total sum), you are full of crap. Arizona always has talent. Now, Yeskie gets credit for helping elevate this Arizona staff for sure. No doubt.
I am not saying anything about overall talent. I am more or less focused on pitching talent. Yeskie appears to have gutted the staff and seems to have done wonders in putting it back together. More than 2/3 of the outs against Oregon State were notched by Yeskie pitchers.
The thing that galls me is that Arizona had not won a game at Goss since 2015, and then only one. The last time that the Wildcats won a series at Goss was 2012, Arizona scoring 12 and Oregon State scoring 10. You have never seen the Wildcats beat the Beavers at Goss as bad as Arizona beat Oregon State on Friday. That was a bad loss, the worst ever.
