Word: catchers
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...only this year is Mann getting the opportunity to be the full-time catcher, something he probably would have had for the past two seasons on any other, thinner Ivy team...
...Without a doubt, Schuyler is the most talented catcher I’ve ever played with,” sophomore second baseman Zak Farkes says. “And we had Brian Lentz last year. For me growing up, all you heard was Brian Lentz—he was a couple years ahead of me, a Massachusetts guy, and he was all-everything in Massachusetts, three sports, great athlete. But Schuyler, just talent-wise, is far and away the best I’ve ever seen...
Then, Farkes will tell you what, precisely, the catcher just can’t bring himself to blurt out—what most in the Ivy League have long been afraid...
...freshman, I accepted the role of getting to start some games and getting to DH the rest, and that was great for me,” he recalls. “Then, last year, I heard about this kid Brian Lentz who’s coming back, this great catcher, and so I was going to split. That was fine...
...gives you a real good combination of not only being a really good receiver, and a catcher, defensively—where we look to recruit guys—but he’s a plus-plus in the offensive column for you. You just don’t see that with catchers. You’re real happy if you get a guy who can throw somebody out and he hits eighth in the lineup...