Word: shortstops
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Junior centerfielder Matt Vance, Stoeckel’s roommate and a former star shortstop at San Diego’s Torrey Pines High, could replace an ineffective Stoeckel as soon as his right shoulder fully heals from offseason surgery. With a career .402 on-base percentage out of the leadoff spot, Vance, unlike Stoeckel (three hits in 20 career at-bats), has proved that he can hit Ivy League pitching...
Even as a heavily recruited shortstop out of Solana Beach, Calif., Matt Vance knew that baseball at the college level would require adjustments to his game. But when he prepared to suit up for his first action in a Harvard uniform, he realized that playing for the Crimson would be even more of a change than he had anticipated...
Vance’s new placement was understandable: Morgan Brown ’06 would go on to earn All-Ivy League honors at shortstop in his junior and senior seasons, and Vance’s blazing speed made him an asset in centerfield and at the top of coach Joe Walsh’s batting order...
Still, Vance’s future with the team seemed pretty clear: Brown would graduate in June 2006, leaving a hole at shortstop that he would scamper in to fill...
Worse yet, with the injury and lengthy rehabilitation, Vance lost his grip on the starting shortstop job he had so highly anticipated. With his shoulder still ailing and Stoeckel making great strides at short in the offseason, Vance will likely see most of his time in centerfield for the third straight year...