NC State Catcher Alex Sosa Has Entered The Transfer Portal

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8:24p, 6/19/25

It's amazing we could do so poorly at replacing the production (of guys that nobody had heard of before they came here), and still make a regional. Luckily the same people who brought in Tommy White, Gino Groover, Amac, Pennington, Butters, etc, etc, etc(and coached them to career years) are still the people bringing in players. I don't really think they have to prove anything.

Just a guy on the sunshine squad.

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In reply to tau06 • 9:58p, 6/19/25

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tau06 said:
Ripper said:
The question isn't how good Sosa is at the plate or behind the plate, including his framing technique. The question is will the replacement be equal to or better than Sosa would have been for next season.

Hopefully, we get someone better. But not likely. Who knows?

This is the correct answer. Until proven otherwise it's a big loss. We all expected and hoped to get a 1B close/equal to what we got with Pennington or a 3B close to AMac for this past season. We didn't come close to replacing that production. If you replace the outgoing with better talent it doesn't matter. We struck out last year and need to show we can do a better job either through recruiting or development to get back on track. For once, more concerned with hitting than arms

We didn't come close to replace A Mak which was definitely a scouting error, IMO. But we certainly hit a home run with McHugh at first base. Issue was the guys behind him couldn't drive him in at a consistent enough clip.

I don't disagree with your premise at all, but if we can't replace the numbers that JTilley laid out + the subpar defense then we have big problems. Could Sosa have taken that leap? Maybe, but it's not like replacing A Mak

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In reply to Alex Gee • 1:29a, 6/20/25

Alex Gee said:
tau06 said:
Ripper said:
The question isn't how good Sosa is at the plate or behind the plate, including his framing technique. The question is will the replacement be equal to or better than Sosa would have been for next season.

Hopefully, we get someone better. But not likely. Who knows?

This is the correct answer. Until proven otherwise it's a big loss. We all expected and hoped to get a 1B close/equal to what we got with Pennington or a 3B close to AMac for this past season. We didn't come close to replacing that production. If you replace the outgoing with better talent it doesn't matter. We struck out last year and need to show we can do a better job either through recruiting or development to get back on track. For once, more concerned with hitting than arms

We didn't come close to replace A Mak which was definitely a scouting error, IMO. But we certainly hit a home run with McHugh at first base. Issue was the guys behind him couldn't drive him in at a consistent enough clip.

I don't disagree with your premise at all, but if we can't replace the numbers that JTilley laid out + the subpar defense then we have big problems. Could Sosa have taken that leap? Maybe, but it's not like replacing A Mak

Plain and simple, Sosa is a scouts dream that analytics hates.

You see the swing, you see the power and just drool over the upside. But I feel very confident in saying that if you did blind resumes of a bunch of other random catchers, including their defensive metrics no one on here would be picking him.

At some point, the tools that show up putting on a show during BP, facing below average pitching and randomly during the season need to show up most of the time.

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