Report: Erik Bakich Staying at Michigan
Kendall Rogers reports that Erik Bakich "has turned down Stanford and is staying at Michigan long-term." He also says that Bakich is not a candidate for the South Carolina job. (Tweets below in a reply.)
Great news!
COACHING NEWS: Big news as @umichbaseball HC Erik Bakich has turned down #Stanford and is staying put at #Michigan long-term. #GoBlue
— Kendall Rogers (@KendallRogersD1) June 14, 2017
In other Erik Bakich news, he is NOT a candidate for the #SouthCarolina job. Bakich made it crystal clear he's committed to UM long-term.
— Kendall Rogers (@KendallRogersD1) June 14, 2017
Wow, Stanford is a college baseball powerhouse and Palo Alto is a pretty nice place to live. Really excited about this. Bakich has done a great job thus far.
Plus, he's from that area and has been recruiting heavily (and successfully) in California, so it's a pretty big deal for him to turn Stanford down.
Kudos to Warde for keeping our guy right where he belongs.
Kudos for you for giving Warde some credit when some people seem to still be down or "meh" on him for no reason.
Plus, he's not John Beilein.
great place to live if you can afford it. Entry level homes in Palo Alto are $800k for 1000 square foot complete fixers.
EastPA dumps are like 800k
anything near stanford off the embarcadero is over 1 easy...and that includes the garbage fixer uppers!
— Erik Bakich (@ErikBakich) June 15, 2017
Fuck Stanford.
(man, never thought i'd use this twice on the same day!)
Love his usage of "Those who stay will be Champions". Sounds like his love for Michigan runs quite deep.
Michigan just had 11 current players and 6 incoming Freshmen selected in the MLB draft. Seven of the 11 current players picked have a year of eligibility remaining, so that's 13 players who could play for Michigan next year or could sign a minor league contract.
With Bakich coming back, hopefully we hold on to a good number of those 13. Michigan's draft (with round):
6th round: P Cody Bolton, incoming Fr (PIT)
6th: P Oliver Jaskie, Junior (SEA)
11th: 3B Drew Lugbauer, Junior (ATL)
16th: P Ryan Nutof, Junior (CIN)
17th: 1B Jason Pineda, incoming Fr (SDP)
24th: C Harrison Wenson, Senior (LAA)
25th: P Bryan Pall, Junior (SEA)
27th: 1B Jake Bivens, Junior (DET)
28th: CF Johnny Slater, Senior (SEA)
28th: P Michael Hendrickson, Junior (CLE)
29th: P Grant Reuss, Junior (DET)
33rd: P Mac Lozer, Senior (NYM)
33rd: C Joe Donovan, incoming Fr (CHC)
35th: P Jeff Criswell, incoming Fr (DET)
36th: SS Michael Brdar, Senior (STL)
37th: OF Jesse Franklin, incoming Fr (SEA)
40th: P Angelo Smith, incoming Fr (CHW)
Not sure I understand why Jackson Lamb wasn't selected.
So a typical team has 1 MLB, 1 AAA, 1 AA, 1 "high-A", 1 "low-A", 1 short-season A and 1 rookie team. That's 7 full baseball teams, each with 25 active players plus however many players on the disabled lists. Figure 200+ players.
Also figure that about 5 years is the typical career (sure, there are players with 20-year careers, but plenty of players who get 1-3 years and then are cut). So each team needs about 40 new players a year. A team drafts 40 players, ends up signing about 25 or so of those 40, and then they get about 15 more from overseas or from undrafted free agents.
There are separate news articles saying that three of first four drafted will sign and go pro: Bolton, Lugbauer, and Nutof. I haven't seen anything definitive on Jaskie yet, but I'd be surprised if he didn't sign.
Jackson Lamb has another year of eligibility. Wonder if he might return to Michigan. (He could always go the undrafted free agent route.)
EDIT: Michigan and Texas tied for most draft picks (11):
Most #MLBDraft picks:
— MLB Draft (@MLBDraft) June 15, 2017
11 @umichbaseball @TexasBaseball
10 @Chipola_BSB @StanfordBSB
9 @FSUBaseball @ClemsonBaseballhttps://t.co/ltDDXVm4bk pic.twitter.com/tOPoOGgU04
from a University across all sports. Given our performance in FB and Baseball, and the upcoming draft in BB and hockey, UM is having a great year.
As a statement and a song it seems both work well here.
YEEEAAAHH
Stanford is really something. Mark Marquess has been their coach since 1977.
So Coach B is Really making a commitment to M. Go Blue.
That's what crossed through my head. But, it was in the voice of that 5-year old or so girl in that radio Geico ad where the Dad can't man up and give a rudimentary explanation of where babies come from.
This is BIG for Michigan Baseball ! Coach B will keep Michigan at or near the top of the Big 10. He is a great baseball coach .