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...Looking back on it, if I hadn’t got cut, I wouldn’t be as good of a player as I am now,” Stoeckel says. “It really made me think about how hard I wanted to work...
Credit the circumstances or credit the work. Or credit one summer among the orange trees, where Jeff Stoeckel learned that there are worse ways to spend your time than playing ball...
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...
With backup options like the speedy Matt Rogers capable of replacing Vance in center, Stoeckel could be squeezed out of the starting lineup altogether. So he understands the need to build upon a strong offseason...
...worked very hard on my hitting,” Stoeckel says. “I think I can offensively help the team. Not as much as the big guns like [third baseman Steffan Wilson] and Vance. But be a guy who can bunt, be a guy who can hit and run. Get hit by pitches. And then also scatter around some hits. There’s no reason why I can’t hit in the upper .200s and make a difference offensively...