greatest wrote:baseball4life wrote:greatest wrote:Well baseball4life, if u want to talk about returning players, look at both NSPPB(Berthold) and Kenmare. The NSPPB team return every single player except 2. One of which was very talented and the other was horrible and actually hurt the team. So they lost 1 contributor. Kenmare only lost 1 or 2 players but both were contributors to the team that got 2nd in regionals and 2nd in the regular season. Personally i like NSPPB to win this region over Kenmare .
Their returners arent that good... NSPPB won't even challenge kenmare or Bishop Ryan. They got Ten Runned in every game agains Ryan last year... Another question.Who is going to pitch for either team... NSPPB lost their only half ways decent pitcher in geisen... Kenmare lost their only Half-ways decent pitcher in Peterson... Ryan will be the top team untill somebody beats them... And that probably won't be easy looking at the talent from either of these teams... How did any remaining pitchers for either of these teams fair against Ryan last year? You make me chuckle!
Both teams return everyone except 2 - teams that got 2nd (Kenmare) and 3rd (NSPPB) in regionals. And ya both teams did get 10 runned by Ryan .. last year.. when Ryan won it all for the second straight year, Ryan 10 runned everyone up until the state tourney. The reason they won it all twice is because they returned everyone from the first year's championship team, just like Kenamre and NSPPB will do - return everyone.
But there is a big difference between the two scenario's... Bishop Ryan returned alot from very talented teams, while kenmare and NSPPB havent proven anything...
And to clarify, Magnuson is going to be back this week for the lions in their game agains Bowman. Returning pitchers are Magnuson, Petz, Himmerick, Kramer. If there is going to be struggles on the lions team this year, i see it coming from their pitching staff in the beginning of the season, just because of the lack of the experience...
And another clarification, just because i am saying all of this about Ryan, doesnt mean that i think that it will be the easy road (so to speak) that they have had in the past... i am just saying that they return alot of talent that alot of people don't really know about, and the young talent is going to suprise people... Ultimately here is the reason why i am picking them... They have a good tradition there and the people this year are expecting nothing less then another region title.